Awards

"Our winner is the dynamic verite E-Team. On every front we found it to be a nearly perfect film. Tightly constructed, the film's editing leads the viewer through a seamless narrative, an engrossing 90 minutes that fly by. E-Team thankfully manages to avoid the timeworn trope of the Western "savoir" striding into a poverty-stricken third world country of voiceless victims. Survivors are given time on camera to speak for themselves, to share their pain, anger, sadness - as well as their determination to live on. At a time when the public's trust in mainstream media is at an all time low, perhaps only a film as powerfully constructed as E-Team could remind us of the true value of investigative reporting. Journalism, when done right, can and does save lives."