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Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology 

  • 2013: Winner of the Best Feature from the Big Easy Int’l Film and Music Festival
  • 2012: Winner of Disruptive Innovation Award from The Tribeca Film Festival
  • 2012: Selected by the US State Department & USC for the 2012 American Film Showcase 
  • 2012: Winner of the Best Documentary Feature from the Atlanta Int’l Film Festival
  • 2012: Winner Best in Show- LA Movie Awards
  • 2012: Winner Best Director- LA Movie Awards
  • 2012: Winner Best Visual Effects- LA Movie Awards
  • 2012: Winner 1st Place Feature Documentary- LA Movie Awards
  • 2012: Winner Award of Excellence from the Accolade Competition
  • 2011: Winner of Women in Film Award, National Geographic
  • 2011: Winner Interdependence Film Prize, Berlin Film Festival & The Interdependence Movement
  • 2011: Winner Best Documentary Audience Award from the Maui Film Festival
  • 2011: Winner Metta Media Award from the Dallas Video Fest
  • 2011: Winner Best Feature Documentary from The Portland Maine Film Festival
  • 2011: Honorable Mention from the Jerusalem Film Festival
  • Script selected to be part of the Motion Picture Library

Connected has played at over 35 film festivals including: Sundance Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Jerusalem International Film Festival, Ashland Independence Film Festival, and Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.

Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks

  • 2013: Winner of The Best Short Educational Film from The Int’l Family Film Festival
  • 2013: Best Documentary from The West Chester Film Festival
  • 2013: Selected by the U.S. State Department for the American Film Showcase

A Declaration of Interdependence

  • 2012: 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
  • 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

  • 2012: Juror’s Citation Black Maria Film Festival
  • 2012: Award of Excellence from Best Shorts Competition
  • 2011: Winner Best Performance (Peter Coyote) Maverick Movie Awards
  • 2011: Nominated for Ovation TV Short Film Contest
  • 2011: Airing on Outside TV starting November 2011 in Telluride, CO
  • 2010: Guggenheim Museum/Youtube Video Biennial Short List

Yelp has played at 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

  • 2011: Selected as one of the retrospective films to stream in the Tribeca Online Film Festival
  • 2008: Winner Best Documentary Short: Cleveland International Film Festival
  • 2008: Winner Brothers Festival of Shorts, 3rd Prize
  • 2008: Winner Best Documentary West Chester Film Festival
  • 2007: Winner Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Doc: Florida Film Festival
  • 2007: Winner Golden Star Award for Best Documentary Short
  • 2007: Winner Best Short Documentary: Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
  • 2007: Winner Best Contemporary Jewish Film: Warsaw International Film Festival of Jewish Motifs
  • 2007: Winner Best Documentary: LA Shorts Fest
  • 2007: Winner International Jewish Topics: Argentina International Jewish Film Festival
  • 2006: Indiewire’s Sundance Critic’s Choice
  • 2006: Winner Best Short Documentary, Nashville Film Festival
  • 2006: Winner Directors Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival
  • 2006: Winner Audience Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
  • 2006: Winner Best Historical Film, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival

Tribe has played at over 100 film festival including: Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, and Warsaw.

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness

  • 2004: Honorable Mention in the Best Women’s Short Film Category at the Cleveland International Film Festival
  • 2004: Inclusion in the Sundance Collection at UCLA
  • Best Documentary Short Film: Moab Film Festival
  • 2003: Juror’s Citation Black Maria Film Festival
  • 2003: Finalist USA Film Festival: National Short Film & Video Competition
  • Affiliate Excellence Award from Planned Parenthood Federation
  • Golden Gate Award Official Selection

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness played at 20 film festivals including: Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and Nashville Film Festival.