HONORS

Student Academy Awards Finalist

Best Short Documentary – Amnesty International Film Festival – Au Cinéma pour les Droits Humains

Ruth Landfield Award – Fargo Film Festival

Denver Film Festival – Honorable mention

Susan Rasky Award for Journalistic Excellence

Edwin Bayley Prize for Excellence in Government or Political Reporting

Best Student Documentary – Fargo Film Festival

Best Student Documentary at DOCUTAH Film Festival

SPJ NorCal – Excellence in Journalism – Student Special Project Award

Broadcast Education Association – Festival of Media Arts – Best Student Documentary

FESTIVALS

Tribeca

Sarasota Film Festival

Big Sky Film Festival

San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM)

DOC NYC

Denver Film Festival

Chicago Latino Film Festival

BlackStar Film Festival

Festival cinéma Amnesty International Au Cinéma pour les Droits Humains

DOCUTAH International Film Festival

Fargo Film Festival

Rooftop Films Summer Series

Boston Film Festival

Pan African Film Festival 

Grenada Film Festival

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

SF Indie Fest

Queens World Film Festival 

MIRA – Latin American Independent Film Festival

Bogotá Short Film Festival

San Diego Latino Film Festival

San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Boston Latino Film Festival

Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival

FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS

Radio Television Digital News Association – Winner of the 2016 N.S. Bienstock Fellowship

Documentary Merit Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Carlos M. Castañeda Journalism Scholarship

GRANTS / FUNDING

Berkeley Film Foundation Student Grant