Impact Docs Awards honors Hope for the World Foundation Short Film Documentary
Hope For The World Foundation is impacting the lives of thousands in the Philippines and Mexico. The short film documentary Produced by Lourdes Duque Baron with Dream Team Directors, editor Jonathan Cook and composer Andrew Lane was just recently awarded the 24k gold Impact Docs Awards. The creators of the award are the same company manufacturing the Oscar, Clio, and Accolade.
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Judging and Award Levels
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Best of Show honors are granted to the top scoring entry. Awards of Excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional filmmaking. Notable artistic and technical productions are recognized at the Award of Merit award level and Award of Recognition recognizes achievement in a specific category of entry.
The short documentary film provided a diverse story; it provided a relevant but fresh perspective on the social issues affecting Mexico and the Philippines. It served as a bridge for peace and friendship between East and Western parts of the world through the gift of art.
HOPE for the World Foundation and Medical Missions Fund through the support of volunteers and charitable contributions provide local communities with tools and medicine including basic treatment to complex surgical operations for the young and the old. Every year, a team of volunteers together with Lourdes Duque Baron and husband Dr. Robinson Baron goes to the poorest communities to provide medicine, surgical operations that would include operations for eye cataract and thyroid gland problems to name a few.
According to Dr. Robinson Baron, this is his way of giving back to the Philippines.
They felt compelled to reach out, just imagine the number of people who are going to lose their eyes and life had the missions not started 29 years ago.
Lourdes Duque Baron found peace in giving back, sharing something to people she does not even know despite the odds. Traveling to certain locations in Mexico and the Philippines is a matter of security but the Hope for the World Foundation and Medical Missions Fund were brave enough to continue.
Past winners of the Impact Docs Awards would include Meghan L. O’Hara, (USA), The C Word, Doc Feature — Academy Award nominee Meghan L. O’Hara entertains with a fresh take on our approach to fighting cancer and uncovers a better way. Corporate profiteering, hidden science, and financial incentives are reasons we don’t realize our own power in this fight. So, if 70% of cancer deaths are preventable … what are we waiting for? Executive Produced and narrated by the incomparable Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman.
Abraham Joffe (Australia), Tales By Light: Life and Death, Documentary Feature
Annette Dittert and Daniel Moßbrucker (Germany), The Darknet. A journey into the digital underworld., Documentary Feature
Ansley Sawyer and Corey Embring (USA), Like We Don’t Exist, Documentary Short
Antonia Thomson (Canada), What It Takes To Be Extraordinary Documentary, Documentary Feature
Brent Miller Jr. (USA), The Coming Convergence, Documentary Feature
Charles Ewing Smith (USA), The Demolition of Truth — Psychologists Examine 9/11, Documentary Feature
Christina Paschyn (Qatar / Ukraine), A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars, History / Biographical
Claudia Sobral (USA), Hotel Everest, Documentary Short
Corbett Jones (USA), All We Need Is Another Chance, Documentary Feature
Daniel Lombroso (USA), Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside the Alt-Right, Documentary Short
Debbie Howard (United Kingdom), Still Loved, Documentary Feature
The Hope For The World Foundation also won the W.I.N.D Film Festival for short documentary equivalent to the female Oscars and the Telly Awards with Dream Team Directors and Andrew Lane.