The FOCAL Awards celebrate three areas – production, restoration and preservation, and people.
All our production categories celebrate the very best use of footage within the production, programme or project.
Production Awards
Our Production Categories celebrate the very bust uses of footage within productions, programmes and projects from short films to feature films, documentaries to innovative platforms.
2025 Best Use of Footage in an Arts & Cultural Production
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a Cinematic Feature
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a Factual or Natural World Production
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a History Feature
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a History Production
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a Music Production
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production
Read more2025 Best Use of Footage in a Sports Production
Read more2025 Student Jury Award for Most Inspiring Use of Footage
Read moreRestoration & Preservation
The 2022 Restoration and Preservation Categories champions the growing field of restoration, featuring well-known classics and under-seen or previously lost gems.
2025 Best Archive Restoration & Preservation Project or Title
Read morePersonnel Awards
Our 2021 Personnel Award Categories amplify the work of the individuals and companies who aid productions in finding the best possible archival footage. Includes our Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year award.