- Producer Chris Rock on "Good Hair"
- Directors Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson on "Dirt! The Movie"
- Writer/Director Lynn Shelton on "Humpday"
- Director/Co-Writer Nicholas Jasenovec on "Paper Heart"
- Director/Producer Louie Psihoyos on "The Cove"
- Director and Co-Writer Ry Russo-Young on "You Won't Miss Me"
- Writer/Director Cary Joji Fukunaga on "Sin Nombre"
- Director Ondi Timoner on "We Live in Public"
- Director and Co-Writer Ross Katz on "Taking Chance"
- Writer/Director Shana Feste on "The Greatest"
- Director Lee Daniels on "Push: based on the novel by Sapphire"
- Writer/Director Emily Abt on "Toe to Toe"
- Director R.J. Cutler on "The September Issue"
- Director/Co-Writer Cruz Angeles on "Don't Let Me Drown"
- Writer/Director Max Mayer on "Adam"
- Director Eric Daniel Metzgar on "Reporter"
- Director Natalia Almada on "El General"
- Directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra on "I Love You Phillip Morris"
- Director Joe Berlinger on "Crude"
- Director Pamela Yates on "The Reckoning"
- Writer/Director John Hindman on "Arlen Faber"
- Director Greg Barker on "Sergio"
- Director Adam Salky and Writer David Brind on "Dare"
- Director Dana Perry on "Boy Interrupted"
- Writer/Director Jay DiPietro on "Peter and Vandy"
- Director Liz Garbus on "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech"
- Writer/Director Sophie Barthes and Producer Andrij Parekh on "Cold Souls"
- Director Michel Orion Scott and Producer Rupert Isaacson on "Over the Hills and Far Away"