Awards

For creating a heart-wrenching narrative and a rousing portrait out of a multitude of lives that have been and are still being abused by a social system that unfortunately requires the de-humanization of people on the fringes.

For effectively exposing the deplorable conditions of lives that have been left hidden and invisible through engaging images that efficiently evoke the realities of human strife.

For sensitively allowing all of its powerful images to haunt and linger, creating a concise but indelible narrative of invisible lives existing in the fringes of society.

Masterfully harnesses the surface and substance of found sound to tell an aural narrative that is affecting for its ironically painful mundanity and unobtrusiveness in a milieu that suffers from social indifference.

With powerful imagery and precision editing, Yield shows the struggle of nine working class youths to tell an exquisite coming of age story set against an unchanging background of adversity.