premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Candescent's film Trophy, directed by Shaul Schwarz, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by CNN Films and The Orchard. Candescent supported Step, which also premiered at Sundance 2017, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking. Candescent helped finance the development and production of The Departure, directed by Lana Wilson. It premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2018 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature. Wilson's first film, After Tiller, received a 2013 Candescent Award. Candescent Received an "In Association With" credit for Generation Wealth, directed by Lauren Greenfield, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. Candescent supported Charm City, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film, directed by Marilyn Ness, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, and was distributed by PBS Distribution. Candescent Award The "Candescent Award" is the name for two different awards, both issued by Candescent Films, one in cooperation with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) and one in cooperation with the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). DFP Candescent Award In 2012, Candescent Films created the Candescent Award in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program to support the creation and completion of socially conscious documentary films. It began as a two-year gift to the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, and has continued as an annual award given at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The winner of the inaugural Candescent Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival was Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. The 2013 winners were Gideon's Army, about public defenders, and After Tiller, about the 2009 assassination of Dr. George Tiller. Both films were nominated for 2013 Spirit Awards. In January 2014, Candescent Films announced the three winners of its 2014 Candescent Award in partnership with the Sundance Institute: Marmato, about a Colombian mining town; Private Violence, about a domestic violence victim's fight to put her husband in prison; and E-Team, about a team of human rights investigators. The two winners of the 2015 Candescent Award were How to Change the World, which won the World Cinema Documentary Special