More than 800 people comprise Cinema Eye’s voting membership and typically approximately 200-300 of those members cast their votes in a given year. Invitations to vote are sent to the following individuals: The directors of each submitted feature film that particular year. All current and previous Cinema Eye nominees, winners, presenters, jury members, committee and board members. Top filmmakers, distributors, commissioners, grantors, curators, programmers, writers, critics, sales agents and publicists who specialize in the nonfiction field. We encourage voters to view all of the nominated films in a given category before voting for a winner in a particular category. To help voters view films, we ask filmmakers and distributors to supply password-protected links to allow voters to watch films online. Some Cinema Eye categories are decided by juries. In 2018, these include the awards the Spotlight Award and the Heterodox Award.