AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Best Screenplay, Porto7 International Short Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Best Cinematography, HollyShorts Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Winner Special HollyShorts-NociCinema Award, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Audience Award, Cortopolis Festival International de Madrid, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Best Sci-Fi, Boston Sci Fi Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Best Short, Columbia University Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
3rd Place Student Competition, Fort Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Best Sci-Fi Audience Award, Love Your Shorts Film Festival, Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Finalist for the Berlin Today Award - Asternauts, Short Film, 2011
Best Short - Sidewalk Moving Image Film Festival, Conlang, Short Film, 2010
Honorable Mention, Boston Sci Fi Film Festival, Conlang, Short Film, 2010
First Prize Winner,National Harley-Davidson Competition, Here Comes the Bride, 2008
Beacon Award Nomination, The N’s Hip Hop Inspirations interstitials, 2006
Viewer’s Choice Award, Cinequest Film Festival, Bad Behavior, Short Film, 2006
Finalist, Samuel French Festival, Telling the Leaves, 2004
Finalist, SwampKing Festival, And Then There Was Seven, 2002
FELLOWSHIPS
La Selva - La Aceleradora de Cine - Lucrecia Martel, 2019
Dean’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 2007 - 2011
Berlinale: Talent Campus, 2010
AIVF Screenwriting Fellow, 2005
NALIP Latino Writers Lab Fellow, 2005
Berlinale: Talent Campus, 2005
NALIP Latino Producer’s Academy Fellow, 2004
Project Involve Honoree, IFP New York, 2002
Wilfred Readio Award for Artistic Excellence, 1997