Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award
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This award recognizes the most successful videos released in the last year. Strong candidates will be able to articulate the strategic impact of their video and most typically will have:
Reached significant and strategic audiences
Utilized effective messaging or storytelling
Demonstrated capable production and editing techniques
The winner will be invited to attend Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner in New York, where their video will be presented to the audience and they will receive a $5,000 prize.
Applications for the 2025 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival close October 1, 2025.
This opportunity is limited to current and past Lights, Camera, Liberty participants. If you have not participated in Lights, Camera, Liberty, visit our grants page to learn about the next opportunity to apply.
The winner of the 2023 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Liberty Sparks: The Winners
Finalists:
The winner of the 2022 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Institute for Justice: Anatomy of a Forfeiture
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The winner of the 2021 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Property and Environment Research Center: Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter
Finalists:
The winner of the 2020 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Free the People: How to Love Your Enemy: A Restorative Justice Story
Finalists:
- Bikalpa, an Alternative: Motorbike License
- Center for Anti-Authoritarian Studies: Right to Work
- Fundación Libertad y Progreso: Fables for Liberty
- Pacific Legal Foundation: Seize This House
The winner of the 2019 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Pacific Legal Foundation: Quota
Finalists:
- Free Market Foundation and Paradigm Institute: Pizza VAT
- Georgia Center for Opportunity: The Success Sequence
The winner of the 2018 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Becket: Why There Aren't More Sikhs in the Military
Finalists:
- Canadian Taxpayers Foundation: Beer in the U.S.A
- Libertad y Desarrollo: 3 Razones para Apoyar Ana Inmigración Sustentable y Regulada
The winner of the 2017 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Libertad y Progreso: Why Argentina Fails
Finalists:
- Bikalpa, an Alternative: Why is Nepal Poor?
- Idaho Freedom Foundation: Hope Vetoed
The winner of the 2016 Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award:
Foundation for Economic Education: Friedman vs. Sanders: Democratic Socialism Debunked
Finalists:
- Australian Taxpayers' Alliance: All Obsolete Industries Deserve the Taxi Bailout!
- Institute for Justice: Everything
