Awards

After breaking all records for audience engagement in the history of PBS-Independent Lens, TWO SPIRITS  received the Audience Awardas the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by online voting and other measures of audience support!

Thousands of meaningful conversations emerged online as the film was screened 1,495 times across 140 stations from June 14-29th, 2011.

Over 150 nonprofit partner organizations participated in special screenings attended by over 50,000 people in 100 cities nationwide. In nineteen days 5,000 people commented on the film and over 2 million read about it on Facebook.

Thanks to all who supported by watching, voting and spreading the word about TWO SPIRITS!

The documentary film TWO SPIRITS and the education and outreach work of The Fred Martinez Project received the Monette-Horwitz Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding activism, research, and scholarship to combat homophobia.

TWO SPIRITS was voted BEST DOCUMENTARY OF 2010 at the prestigious CGLFF in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 30, the festival jury singling the film out for the honor from a group of fine documentaries from around the world.

TWO SPIRTS highlighted the British Film Institute’s 23rd annual LGBT Film Festival in London, where it was nominated for the CHE Film Award.

The film was an opening-night selection at the Durango Indpendent Film Festival

TWO SPIRITS screened for the first time in 2010 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where the film was nominated for the Fund for Santa Barbara’s Social Justice Award for Documentary Film.

TWO SPIRITS received a standing ovation from a sell-out crowd of more than five hundred people at its world premiere in November at the Starz Denver Film Festival.