PILLAR AWARDS

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We provide a sense of community and mutual support for whistleblowers or civil and human rights activists.

The Pillar is awarded to notable civil and human rights champions; previous recipients include Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Senator Charles “Chuck” Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO). The Pillar is awarded to politicians, community activists and journalists—including documentary filmmakers.
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Silver Dollar Group of the Ku Klux Klan

Audience Choice Award
2023
From the 1950s to the 1970s, in Northeastern Louisiana and Southwestern Mississippi, the most heinous sect of the terrorist Klan was formed.

The Poison Garden

Impact Award
2023
It tells the true stories of 3 acts of racial terrorism that occurred in and out of South Florida's courts in the 1930s and draws parallels to the problems of law enforcement today.

I am Kanaka

Finalist - Best Short
2023
Eight million Americans visit Hawai'i every year, and Tourists spend $43 million every single day.

The Illusion of Abundance

Finalist - Best Documentary
2023
Despite a profoundly unbalanced game, Maxima, Bertha, and Carolina share a common goal: they are leading today's environmental fight against modern corporate conquistadors.

Sallie mae not: Exposing America's Student Loan Scam

Audience Award
SALLIE MAE NOT: Exposing America's Student Loan Scam is the untold story of how the US Government set up a system of greed that gutted student loans of consumer protections leading to the skyrocketing cost of tuition and indenturing millions through predatory lending. Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi discovers how this same scheme continued to throw millions of students, parents and colleges over the cliff. No one paid much attention and despite today’s headlines of privilege, scandal, greed and blame, the predatory lending system designed to indenture millions, especially women and people of color, remains hiding in plain sight.

Official Secrets

Best Whistleblower Portrayal
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Pillar Awards

We are a coalition of individual whistleblowers, grassroots activists, public interest advocates and policy makers. We provide a sense of community and mutual support for whistleblowers or civil and human rights activists.

The Pillar is awarded to notable civil and human rights champions; previous recipients include Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Senator Charles “Chuck” Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO). The Pillar is awarded to politicians, community activists and journalists—including documentary filmmakers.

Unrepresented
Best Documentary
“UnRepresented” is an award-winning documentary that uncovers the mechanisms that drive the cycle of corruption in Congress—giving political insiders enormous, unchecked power. The film explores how special interests bankroll political campaigns and relentlessly lobby to rig the system in their favor, all while following the letter of the law.
Behind the Walls
Best Short
Portuguese authorities keep no data on ethnicity or race because they find that identifying people by race is discriminatory. Yet, ignoring the data is giving people the right to accept that racism in Portugal does not exist, leaving those in minority communities angered and hopeless because their rights are being taken away. This story will capture the lives of people, and how they really feel about living in their homes. Uncovering their true thoughts, fears, and struggles. It will uncover a system and is unjust and corrupt.
The One and Only Jewish Miss America
Impact Award
"The One and Only Jewish Miss America" documentary tells the story of Bess Myerson, beauty queen from the Bronx, NYC, who overcame antisemitism to win the 1945 Miss America pageant.
Thomas Ruffin
Grace Lee Boggs Award
Thomas Ruffin was an American jurist and Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859. He was Chief Justice of that Court from 1833 to 1852.