AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS IN:
•Film
•Art
•Design
•Leadership
FILM
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology (2011)
Winner: Disruptive Innovation Award, The Tribeca Film Festival
Selected by the US State Department and USC for the American Film Showcase 2012
Best Documentary Feature at the Atlanta Int’l Film Festival
World Premiere Sundance Film Festival 2011
Winner: Best in Show, Los Angeles Movie Awards (2011)
Winner: Best Visuals, Los Angeles Movie Awards (2011)
Winner: Best Director, Los Angeles Movie Awards (2011)
Winner: 1st Place Feature Documentary, Los Angeles Movie Awards (2011)
Winner: The Interdependence Film Prize conceived by The Berlin Film Festival & The Interdependence Movement
Winner: Best Feature Documentary Maui Film Festival Audience Award
Winner: Meta Film Award: Dallas Video Festival
Winner: Best Feature Documentary, Portland Maine Film Festival
Winner: Women in Film Award from All Roads Grant National Geographic
The Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences acquired the script for CONNECTED for the permanent Core Collection
Women of Vision Nomination from L’Oreal/Entertainment Weekly/Sundance
Distinction: Jerusalem International Film Festival
Selected by over 40 Film Festivals including: Sundance, Ashland International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival,
Nashville Film Festival, Rio De Janerio International Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival
A Declaration of Interdependence (2011)
Nominated for Best Chronicle, Best Music and Best Editing- Maverick Movie Awards (2012)
Selected by the National Gallery of Art screening- Black Maria Film Festival (2012)
Director’s Choice Black Maria Film Festival (2012)
Award of Merit- Best Shorts Competition (2012)
Translated into 65 different languages
A Declaration of Interdependence premiered at Interdependence Day on September 12, 2011 at Ground Zero and was selected to play on YouTube’s homepage. The film has begun its festival tour this spring with the Black Maria Film Festival and the Rincon International Film Festival.
Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (2010)
Winner: Juror’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival (2012)
Winner: Best Narration: Maverick Movie Awards
Guggenheim Museum/Youtube Creative Biennial Short List
Ovation TV Finalist
Sundance Film Festival 2011
Selected by over 20 film festivals including: Sundance Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Chicago Reel Shorts, SF Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Green Film Festival and Rincon International Film Festival
The Tribe (2006)
1st Documentary to be #1 on iTunes (2007)
Indiewire’s Sundance Critics’ Choice Award (2006)
Best Documentary: New York Shorts Fest Oct (2007)
Grand Jury Prize: Best Short Documentary, Florida Film Festival, April (2007)
Ovation Award: Best Documentary, LACMA screening in LA (2010)
Best Documentary, Westchester Film Festival (2008)
Best Short Documentary, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival March (2008)
International Jewish Topics, Argentina Jewish Film Festival Oct. 07
Best Documentary, LA ShortsFest (2007)
First Prize, Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Pioneer Award, Warsaw Film Festival (2007)
Golden Star Award, Best Short Documentary (2007)
Best Documentary Short, Nashville Film Festival (2006)
Best Historical Documentary, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival (2006)
Director’s Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival (2006)
Audience Award, Ann Arbor Int’l Film Festival (2006)
Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (2003)
Best Documentary Short, Moab Film Festival ‘03
Juror’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival ‘03
Finalist, USA Film Festival, National Short Film & Video Competition ‘03
Affiliate Award, Excellence Award from Planned Parenthood Federation ‘03
Nominee for SF Int’l Film Festival Golden Gate Award, Official Selection ‘03
Honorable Mention, Best Women’s Short Category, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival ’03
Selected by 20 film festivals including: Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and Nashville Film Festival.
First Films:
Best Experimental Film, “Hunter & Pandora,” Cinequest Film Festival ‘92
Eisner Award, Highest Award in Art by the Chancellor’s Committee, UCBerkeley ’92
Art/Design
Artist-in-Residence, Headland Center for the Arts Fall ’06
HOW International Design Award for Webby Awards Invitation ’01
American Graphic Design Award for Webby Awards Invitation ’99
First Place in Art Contest for Mill Valley Fire Prevention contest 4th grade ’77–won a bicycle;)
Leadership
Women in Film Award for making “Connected,” All Roads Award National Geographic 2011
Women of Vision Award for Directing by L’Oreal/Entertainment Weekly/Sundance 2011
Keynote Commencement Address, UCBerkeley, May 2010
Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute 2007 to 2009
For Creating Socially Responsible Films by Partners Ending Domestic Abuse 2009
The Victoria Award for Ethical Leadership, The Woodhull Institute, NY ’06
Activist Award on behalf of Women’s Rights, Ritz Carleton, Given by Planned Parenthood GG ‘04
Named one of Newsweek Magazine’s “Women Shaping the 21st Century” ‘01
Shining Star Award recipient, American Women in Radio and Television ‘00
Valedictorian Speaker, Interdisciplinary Department. UC Berkeley ‘92
Student Ambassador in the People to People program: Traveled to USSR ‘88
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF WORK
2011 to 2008
Connected at The Sundance Film Festival, Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Maui Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival and many more.
Yelp at The Sundance Film Festival
The Meaning of Life Film at UCBerkeley Commencement
The Tribe at Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art July 2010
The Tribe at LACMA (LA County Museum) June 2010
Screening of film, Yelp at the Academy of Sciences 2010
Ovation Award: Best Documentary, LACMA screening in LA, June 2010
Best Documentary, Westchester Film Festival, May, 2008
Best Short Documentary, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival March 2008
Art Installation: Smashing, Pulse Art Fair NYC 2009
Art Installation: Smashing, The Contemporary Jewish Museum 2008
Short Film Festival of India, Chennai & Guwahati, India
Iowa Independent Film Festival, Mason City, IA
IndieSpirit Film Festival, Colorado Springs, CO
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH
West Chester Film Festival, Columbia, SC
Tallahassee Film Festival, Tallahassee, FL
Jewish Film Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA
Long Beach Jewish Film Festival, Long Beach, CA
Louisville Jewish Film Festival, Louisville, KY
DIY Film Festival, LA,CA
Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
Women’s Film Festival of Vermont, Brattleboro, VT
Benefits Women’s Crisi Center of Brattleboro, VT
Farthest North Jewish Film Festival, Fairbanks, AK
SC Jewish Film Festival, Columbia, SC
Very Short Movies Festival, LA, CA
Artist-in Residencies
Headland Center for the Arts 2006
Film House Residency 2009
Public Presentations of Work: 2007
‣Rotterdam International Film Festival
‣Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
‣Portland Jewish Film Festival
‣Sacramento Jewish Film Festival
‣Broward County Jewish Film Festival
‣Pacific Jewish Film Festival
‣92nd St Y in New York
‣Fusion Film Festival NYU
‣Pittsburgh Jewis-Israeli Film Festival
‣Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival
‣Hartford Jewish Film Festival
‣Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival
‣Columbus Jewish Film Festival
‣Seattle Jewish Film Festival
‣Houston Jewish Film Festival
‣Florida Film Festival
‣NYU Fusion Festival
‣Dayton Jewish Film Festival
‣Ashland International Film Festival
‣Wildsound Film Festival
‣Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
‣Warsaw International Film Festival “Jewish Motifs”
‣Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
‣Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
‣Oydentity Jewish Film Festival
‣Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival
‣Newport International Film Festival
‣Staten Island Film Festival
‣Sid Jacobson Jewish Film Festival
‣Isabella International Film Week
‣Rhode Island International Film Festival
‣Palm Springs Festival of Short Films
‣Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish Film Festival
‣International Jewish Film Festival Argentina
‣Apple Store Theater Soho ‘07
‣Yilan Green International Film Festival, Taiwan
‣LA Shorts Fest
‣Visionfest
‣International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City
‣Golden Lion Film Festival
‣NYC Shorts Fest
‣Arpa International Film Festival
‣Jerusalem Internaitonal Film Festival
‣Vienna Jewish Film Festival
‣The Idea Festival, Screening & Lecture Sept. ‘07
‣Apple Store San Francisco for Itunes Launch
Public Presentations of Work: 2006
‣Sundance Film Festival
‣Apple Store Theater New York & San Francisco
‣LA Premiere: Egyptian Theater
‣Ann Arbor Film Festival
‣Nashville Film Festival
‣Tribeca Film Festival
‣Black Maria Film Festival
‣Nantucket Film Festival
‣San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
‣Silver Docs AFI/Discovery Channel
‣Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
‣Altered Barbie Exhibit
‣Zurich Film Festival
‣Heard Film Festival
‣Temple Emanu-El
‣Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
‣Jackson jewish Film Festival
‣United Nations Association Film Festival
‣Jewish Film Festival of Lower Fairfield County
‣UK Jewish Film Festival
‣Boston Jewish Film Festival
‣Jewish Film Week Vienna
‣Amsterdam Jewish Film Festival
‣St Louis Int’l Film Festival
‣Jewish Art and Food Festival
‣Foyle Film Festival
‣Central Florida Jewish Film Festival
‣Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
‣Washington Jewish Film Festival
‣Sonoma Jewish Film Festival
‣Flickerfest International Film Festival
‣Miami Jewish Film Festival
‣Headland Center for the Arts, Presentation of my films ‘06
‣An evening of my films & discussion at 142 Throckmorton Theater ‘06
Public Presentations of Work: 2003 (Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness)
‣Sundance Film Festival 2003
‣Rotterdam International Film Festival 2003
‣American Film Institute Film Festival 2002
‣Aspen Shortsfest 2003
‣Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2003
‣San Francisco International Film Festival 2003
‣USA Film Festival 2003
‣Nashville Film Festival 2003
‣Atlanta Film Festival 2003
‣Black Maria Film Festival, A touring Festival to museums across the country 2003
‣SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival 2003
‣Lunafest Film Festival 2003
‣Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2003
‣Ohio Independent Film Festival 2004
‣Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival 2003
‣The Florida Room Documentary Film Festival 2004
‣Sonoma Film Festival 2004
‣Cleveland Film Festival- 2004
‣Portland International Film Festival 2004
‣12th International Women’s Film Festival FEMINALE Cologne, Germany Oct, 2004
‣Urban Literature Film Festival 2004
‣Visualize Film Festival 2004
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
‣“Film Feasts” –award winning shorts screening Ohio-Dec, 2004
‣The Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences- Stanford 2004
‣Berkeley Rep. Theater Berkeley, California 2004
‣Parkway Theater, Oakland 2004
‣IFP Los Angeles 2004
‣Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF200
‣Pacific Film Archive at UCBerkeley 2003
‣Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Ten Year Anniversary 2003
SPECIAL SCREENINGS: (continued)
‣Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2003
‣Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles- Political Documentary Run 2004
‣Reproductive Rights March in DC2004
‣Inclusion in “Best of Film Festival Shorts DVD.” Release in fall of 2004
‣Queen’s Bench- San Francisco Women’s Lawyers 2003
‣Planned Parenthood Golden Gate Gala (600 attendees) 2002
‣Headland Center for the Arts, Film Machine Time 2002
‣NYU Film School Director’s Series 2002
‣San Francisco Opera House- Film Natural Connection 2001
‣San Francisco Masconic Theater- Film Machine Time 2000
ACTIVIST OUTREACH:
1000 copies of the film on DVD were purchased by the non-profit film organization, The Film Connection.org (link http://www.filmconnection.org/) in spring, 2004. The film was handed out at the Reproductive Rights march in Washington DC April. Following the “book club,” model, thefilmconnection.org encouraged people to “Take the March Home,” by bringing the DVD home and holding screenings all across the country.
For the 30 year anniversary of Roe V. Wade in January 2003, we partnered with Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, to have the film screen at over 25 Planned Parenthood Affiliates across the country simultaneously. Places included Alaska, 3 cities in Arizona, 5 citites in California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Illinois Nebraska, NY, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, and 2 cities in Washington.
