GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

The Puffin Foundation Grant, New Jersey, NJ. March 2024.

NYC Women’s Fund Grant, Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment & New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York, NY. April 2023.

Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. 2014 - 2016.

AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Award, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. 1996.

Fulbright Scholarship: Full Grant, School of Visual Arts, Germany/New York. 1987 - 1989.

FILM & SCRIPT AWARDS - Las Nogas

BEST ENVIRONMENTAL SHORT, Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology, 2024.

BEST ANIMATION, Queens World Film Festival, 2024

Jury Prize for BEST SHORT, Green Film Festival of San Francisco IndieFest, 2023.

BEST ANIMATED FILM, Fano International Film Festival, 2023.

GREEN PLANET AWARD, Flickers’ RIIFF (Oscar-Qualifying), 2023.

BEST ANIMATION SCRIPT, Flickers’ RIIFF (Oscar-Qualifying), 2019.

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS - Las Nogas

Utopia Film Festival, USA, 2024.
The Brooklyn Museum, USA, 2024.
Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology, USA, 2024.
Queens World Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Boston Underground Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Oxford Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Tonkawa Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Animac, Spain, 2024.
HollyShorts (Monthly Screening), USA, 2024.
Flickers’ RIIFF (Oscar-Qualifying), USA, 2023 (World Premiere).
Cucalorus, USA, 2023.
FILMETS, Badalona, 2023 (Spain Premiere).
New Hampshire Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying), USA, 2023.
Fano International Film Festival, 2023 (Italy Premiere).
Kerry International Film Festival, 2023 (Ireland Premiere).
FilmQuest, USA, 2023.
Green Film Festival of SF,USA, 2023.
San Francisco Short Film Festival, USA, 2023.
Inheritance-Environmental TV Film Festival, UK/Ireland, 2023.
BigSyn International Film Festival, UK, 2023.
Stuff MX, Mexico, 2023. (Mexico Premiere)

FILM & SCRIPT AWARDS - Meeting MacGuffin

Lois Weber Pioneer Award, QWFF, NY, 2021.
Best Animation, Tonkawa FF, OK, 2020.
Best Animation, Jim Thorpe Ind. FF, 2019.
Jury Citation Award, Black Maria FF, 2019.
Best Animated Film, ME FF, GA, 2019.
Best Animation, Wasteland FF, CA, 2018.
Special Jury Mention, Fano Int. FF, (I) 2018.
Best Animation, Scandinavian FF, 2018.
Best Animation, St. Francis FF, NY, 2018.
Honorable Mention, LAAF, LA, CA, 2018.
Spirit Award, Vidlings & Tapeheads, 2018.
Finalist-Best Animation, BLOW-UP, 2018.
Grand Prize: Best Animation Short, 35. Academy Awards® Qualifying RIIFF/Vortex, Providence, RI, 2017.
Best Short Production Design, Other Worlds Austin, TX, 2017.
Best International Animation Short, ANIMAZE, Montreal, 2017.
Best Animation, STIFF, Seattle, WA, 2017.
Audience Choice Award, IndieWorks, NY, 2017.
Quarter Finalist, Cinequest, CA, 2015.

Meeting MacGuffin has screened at:
Cucalorus (USA), Academy Awards® Qualifying Hollyshorts (USA), Filmets (Spain), Academy Awards® Qualifying New Hampshire FF (USA), Queens World Film Festival (USA), Matadero (Madrid), Cineteca (Madrid), Animac (Spain), Mecal (Spain), Animario (Spain), Morbido (Mexico), Oxford FF (USA), Melbourne Int. Animation FF (Australia), La Femme International Film Festival, (USA), FilmQuest (USA), Feratum (Mexico), StopTrik (Poland), Queens World Film Festival (USA), Brooklyn FF (USA), APHA ( American Public Health Association) and many more…

FILM AWARDS - Hanging By A Thread

Best Animation, Nevada City FF, CA, 2013.
Best Animation, New Hampshire FF, 2014.
Spirit Award, Brooklyn FF, NY, 2014.
Best Animated Film, STIFF, WA, 2014.
Award of Excellence, IndieFEST, 2014.
Female Filmmaker Award, FrackFest, 2015.
Platinum Remi Award, WorldFest, TX, 2015.

Hanging By A Thread has screened at:
Cucalorus (USA), Animac (Spain), Academy Awards® Qualifying St. Louis Int. FF (USA), Academy Awards® Qualifying New Hampshire FF (USA), Crossroads FF (USA), Morbido (Mexico), QWFF (USA), StopTrik (Poland) and many more…

FILM AWARDS - The Reading

Best Animated Film, STIFF, Seattle, 2012.
Outstanding Achievement, WIFF, NY, 2012.

The Reading has screened at:
SeMaFor (Poland), Garden State FF (USA), Crossroads FF (USA), QWFF (USA), NewFilmmakers (USA) and many more…