The award categories:
1) Best Feature Film (human rights, animal rights, environmental protection);
2) Best Documentary Film (human rights, animal rights, environmental protection);
3) Best Short Film (human rights, animal rights, environmental protection);
4) Best Animation (human rights, animal rights, environmental protection);
5) Best Music Video (human rights, animal rights, environmental protection);
6) Best philosophical film;
7) Best Direction;
8) Best Script;
9) Best Camera Work;
10) Best Actor/Actress;
11) People’s Choice Award;
12) Special Jury Prize;
13) Special STEPS Festival Prize;
14) UNV Award for Inspiration in action
15) Special STEPS Festival Prize for contribution to the development of rights, environmental, peacemaking and charitable movements in the world;
16) STEPS Festival Prize awarded to NGOs, TV programs, TV channels for contribution to the development of rights, environmental, peacemaking and charitable movements in the world.
The ‘Steps to Freedom’ Statuette, the STEPS Festival Grand Prix.
The heart of the man in the statuette is made of solid gold.
(sculpted by Seyfaddin Gurbanov, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, Head of the sculpture department of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts)
The Statuette “Wings of freedom”, the STEPS Festival Prize