Awards and Festivals

Festivals/Screenings

2023

• Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema – Under the Fur

2022

• NYC Teen Film Festival – Art of Sewing: Portrait of a Seamstress

• Asian Film Festival – This is The Closest To How Home Felt Like

2021

• Philadelphia Youth Film Festival – That’s Not My Name

• Interrobang Film Festival – Into the Underground, That’s Not My Name, Basic With a Twist

• Arlington International Film Festival – Every Body’s Business

• All American High School Film Festival – Her Rising in Grace, Incarcerated Youth, Into the Underground, Unmasked

• NYC Teen Film Festival – Into the Underground, That’s Not My Name

2020

• The Midnight Film Festival – The Brown and Beatific Face of Ishrat Zahan, That’s Not My Name

• New York World Film Festival – Her Rising in Grace

• The My Hero International Short Film Festival - The Brown and Beatific Face of Ishrat Zahan, NNSC, Every Body’s Business, Someone in Life

2019

• Sidewalk Film Festival – Premeditated, Needles & Threads, Black & White, Skateboarding, The Blacker the Berry, In Character

• The My Hero International Short Film Festival – Premeditated, Black & White, Doyenne – Women in a Man’s World, Feminism Through Isabella, I Wanna Be an Artist, In Character

• Arlington International Film Festival – Black & White, Needles & Threads, Doyenne – Women in a Man’s World, Feminism Through Isabella, Displaced

• Interrobang Film Festival – Brujas, The Hustle: Life of Subway Performers, The Blacker the Berry, In Character, I Wanna Be an Artist, Beauty Within Chaos

• All American High School Film Festival – The Blacker the Berry, We Keep Talking

2018 

• The Big Muddy Film Festival - How To Be Bad

• MOMI Teen Film Festival

• Black Lives Matter Conference - Where We At, Colorism, Premeditation, #WHATPIANODISTRICT

• Derek Freese Film & Video Festival - Needles & Threads, Black & White

• Do It Your Damn Self! National Youth Film & Video Festival - Premeditated

• Chicago Int'l Film Festival’s CineYouth Film Festival - Skateboarding, Needles & Threads

• Teens Curate Teens: “What About Us?” Exhibition - The Hustle: Life of Subway Performers

2017

• Sidewalk Film Festival – I Am Anthony

• BlackStar Film Festival's Youth Festival – Beauty in the Madness

• Lighthouse International Film Festival – Where The Sidewalk Ends

• Queens World Film Festival – No Human Involved

• San Diego Latino Film Festival's Youth Film Festival – "Welcome" To America, I Don't Want to Salsa With You

• Teens Curate Teens: “IM/PERMEABLE” Exhibition – Bronx-Based, Where We At

2016

• Citizen Jane Film Festival – Missing Question Mark

• NewFest - LGBTQ Film Festival – Livin’ The Lies

• The March on Washington Film Festival – “Welcome” To America

• Hoboken International Film Festival – No Human Involved

• Teens Curate Teens: Where You Been? Exhibition – “Welcome” To America

• Tribeca Film Festival's Our City, My Story – Missing Question Mark, Steel Faces and Silver Snakes

2015

• Teens Curate Teens: Future Fix Exhibition – Fatherhood, Colorism

• Chicago Int'l Film Festival’s CineYouth – Race vs. Rock

• Tribeca Film Festival's Our City, My Story – Fatherhood

• Do it Your Damn Self! National Youth Film & Video Festival – Victim

2014

• Tribeca Film Festival's Our City, My Story – King of the Jungle

2013

• Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival – Triggering Wounds

• 12th Annual Docu-Jam Film Festival –Triggering Wounds

• Do It Your Damn Self!! 16th Annual Film Festival – Universal Playlist

2012

• Big Muddy Film Festival – Daniel, Fast Food or Fast Poison, Icee Man, Sagomatic, Universal Playlist, Weave Me Alone

• My Hero International Film Festival – A Green Initiative

• Citizen Jane Film Festival – Daniel

• Tribeca Film Festival's Our City, My Story – Daniel, Sagomatic