Official Selection - Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival (Love Again music
video)
Official Selection - The Independent Cinema Showcase, Los Angeles (Life in Color)
Official Selection - Vienna Independent Film Festival (VIFF) in Austria (Once Upon
A Woman)
Official Selection - Vienna Independent Film Festival (VIFF) in Austria (Love Again
music video)
Official Selection - Vienna Independent Film Festival (VIFF) in Austria (Life in Color)
Official Selection - Queerbee LGBT Film Festival in London, United Kingdom (Spaghetti
Romance)
Winner - Winner of the American Tracks Music Awards (Love Again music video)
Winner - Silver Palm Award, Mexico International Film Festival (Muñecas)
Official Selection - Best Shorts International Competition (Love Again music video)
Winner - Bronze Remi Award, World-Fest Houston Film Festival (Muñecas)
Official Selection - Festival dei Tulipani di Seta Nera, selected by RAI Cinema —
the main Italian TV channel — (Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - Silicon Beach Film Festival (Undocumented)
Official Selection - Silicon Beach Film Festival (Life in Color)
Winner - Award of Merit LGBT category, Best Shorts Competition (Life in Color)
Official Selection - Redline International Film Festival (Life in Color)
Official Selection - qFlix Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Life in Color)
Official Selection - 25 Under 25 Film Fest (Life in Color)
Official Selection - OUTshine Film Festival; Miami, Florida (Life In Color)
Semifinalist - NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival (Spaghetti Romance)
Winner - Best Audio-Visual Film, Los Angeles CineFest (Undocumented)
1st place/Diamond Award/Best Student Film - Mindfield Film Festival, Los Angeles (Muñecas)
Official Selection (Top 10, worldwide) - Universe Multicultural Film Festival (Muñecas)
Official Selection - BFF Borgarnes Film Freaks Film Festival; Iceland (Exposé)
Award of Excellence - Accolade Global Film Competition (Spaghetti Romance)
2017
Social Impact Award" - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Muñecas)
Student Academy Awards - USC short film "Mammoth" produced by SMC Producer Carrie
Finklea and her team of SMC Film-Production female students
Award of Merit: Latin / Hispanic - Best Shorts International Competition (Muñecas)
Official Selections - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Muñecas, Spaghetti Romance)
Feature Story - La Opinión, Los Angeles (Muñecas)
Nationwide TV interview - Telemundo (with Ozzy Ozuna, director of Muñecas)
Official Selection - 6th Annual Georgia Latino Film Festival (Muñecas)
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 30K Fellowship Grant Award (SMC Film Production
Program)
Winner - Best Student Film; Prague Independent Film Festival, Czech Republic (Muñecas)
Official Selection - The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival (Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - Latino Short Film Festival; Harlem, New York City (Muñecas)
Official Selection - Milwaukee Short Film Festival (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Muñecas)
Official Selection - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - Women in Film (WIFTA) Short Film Showcase; Atlanta, Georgia (Spaghetti
Romance)
Special Screening - Borgia, Italy, sponsored by the Calabria Film Commission (Spaghetti
Romance)
Official Selection - Figari Film Festival, Italy (Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - Olbia Film Market, Sardinia, Italy (Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the 2017
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (Spaghetti Romance)
Special Screening - Highland Park Independent Film Festival (Solidarity)
Grand Prize Winner - SMC's 8th Annual Global Citizenship Research Symposium (A Fish
Story)
Official Selection - Roma CinemaDoc, Italy (Lenora)
Winner - "Special Achievement Award," Silicon Beach Film Festival (Spaghetti Romance)
Winner - "Most Inspirational Short Film," Silicon Beach Film Festival (Muñecas)
Official Selection - Prague Independent Film Festival, Czech Republic (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Prague Independent Film Festival, Czech Republic (Muñecas)
Official Selections - 14th Nahal Student Short Film Festival in Tehran, Iran (Solidarity,
Muñecas, Cora, A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Workers Unite Film Festival, New York (Solidarity)
Official Selections - Silicon Film Festival (Muñecas, Spaghetti Romance)
Official Selection - Roswell Film Festival, New Mexico (A Fish Story)
Silver Remi Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - "GetIndieWise" Convention; Miami, Fl (Falling Like Fools)
2016
Nomination for Best Screenplay - Largo International Film Awards (Like A Rolling Stone)
Gold Award for Best Score - Mindfield Film Festival (Like A Rolling Stone)
Silver Award for Best Short - Mindfield Film Festival (A Fish Story)
Best Editing Platinum Award - LA Shorts Awards (A Fish Story)
Award of Merit Special Mention: Women Filmmakers/Student - Best Shorts International
Competition (A Fish Story)
Award of Merit Special Mention: Film Short/Student - Best Shorts International Competition
(A Fish Story)
Award of Merit: Film Short/Student - Best Shorts International Competition (Like A
Rolling Stone)
Award of Merit: Original Score - Best Shorts International Competition (Like A Rolling
Stone)
Official Selection - Mindfield Film Festival (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Mindfield Film Festival (Like A Rolling Stone)
Official Selection - Culver City Film Festival (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Culver City Film Festival (Like A Rolling Stone)
Winner - Best Narrative Short Film; Cutting Edge International Film Festival (Cora)
Winner - Best Student Film / Panavision Limelight Award; Ojai Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - Best Shorts Competition (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Best Shorts Competition (Like A Rolling Stone)
Official Selection - Best Of Genre Award & Audience Award; Cutting Edge International
Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - Imagine This Women's International Film Festival; Brooklyn, New
York (A Fish Story)
Official Selection - Silicon Beach and Playa del Rey Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - Imagine This Women's International Film Festival; Brooklyn, New
York (Bird)
Official Selection - Joburg Film Festival; Johannesburg, South Africa (Cora)
Winner Best Short Film - Highland Park Independent Film Festival; Los Angeles, CA
(Solidarity)
Official Selection - Cine Soul, The Sacramento Black Film Festival (Cora)
Best Period Film Short - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - IndieWise Virtual Festival (Falling Like Fools)
Official Selection - Jahorina film Festival; Pale, Sarajevo (Exposé)
Official Selection - Ojai Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - The Other Venice Film Festival (Cora)
Winner Best Narrative Short Film - Kaleidoscope LGBT Film Festival; Little Rock, Arkansas
(Exposé)
Winner Best Short Film - Prague Independent Film Festival (Cora)
Winner Best Original Music Score - Santa Monica International Film Festival; Santa
Monica, CA (Like A Rolling Stone)
Winner Best Production Design and Best Costume Design - Santa Monica International
Film Festival; Santa Monica, CA (Cora)
Official selection Best Short and Official selection Best Drama categories/closing
film - Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF); Prague, Czech Republic (Cora)
Official selection - 22nd Annual Black Harvest Film Festival shorts program; Gene
Siskel Film Center, Chicago (Cora)
Official selection - Sacramento Film & Music Festival; Sacramento, CA (Cora)
Official selection - Marina del Rey Film Festival (Cora)
Official selection/opening film - Peachtree Village International Film Festival; Atlanta,
Georgia (Cora)
Official selection - Theatron Open Air Kurzfilmfestival; Munich, Germany (Exposé)
Official selection - Fuchsbau Film Festival; Hannover, Germany (Exposé)
Official selection - Kaleidoscope LGBT Film Festival; Little Rock, Arkansas (Exposé)
Official selection - 8th Annual FM LGBT Film festival in Fargo-Moorhead, MN (Exposé)
Semifinalist (so far) - Cornwall Film Festival Short Film Competition; England, UK
(Bird)
Winner - Best Film - 5th competition of CinemadaMare Film Festival; Maratea, Italy
(Lenora)
Winner - Best Film, Best Actor - 3rd competition of CinemadaMare Film Festival; Ponza,
Italy (Il Diavolo)
Winner - Best Actress - 2nd competition of CinemadaMare Film Festival; San Benedetto,
Italy (Welcome Home)
Winner - Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Sound - 1st competition of CinemadaMare
Film Festival; Santa Marinella, Italy (You, Me and the End of the World)
Official Selection - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Like a Rolling Stone)
Official Selection - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - 2nd Annual Kaleidoscope LGBT Film Festival; North Little Rock,
Arkansas (Exposé)
Official Selection - 12th Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay, Canada (Cora)
1st Place - fifth U.Kino Kurzfilmfestival in Munich, Germany (Exposé)
Official Selection - Fuchsbau Festival in Hannover, Germany (Exposé)
Official Selection - CinemadaMare International Main Competition; 12 cities in Italy
(Cora)
Official Selections - Arclight Cinemas and Santa Monica International Film Festival's
"Indie Showcase" screening at the Arclight Santa Monica (Solidarity, Bird, Hurt, Cora)
Winner - Bronze Palm Award, Mexico International Film Festival (Bird)
Official Selection - XVIII San Francisco Black Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival / Emerging Filmmaker Showcase (Cora)
Winner Bronze Remi / Best Student Film category - WorldFest-Houston International
Film Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - OUT Web Fest at AFI (Exposé)
Winner Best Short Film - Seadance Film Festival; Marbella, Spain (Bird)
Official Selection - Davis Feminist Film Festival (Exposé)
Official Selection - Columbus International Film Festival, longest running festival
in North America (Cora)
Official Selection - Bayernweite Jufinale; Ingolstadt, Germany (Exposé)
First Place - Flimmernundrauschen Film Festival in Germany (Exposé)
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (Cora)
Best Music Video - Reel Teal Film Festival; Wilmington, NC (Falling Like Fools)
Winner Best Editing / Silver Award - LA Shorts Awards; Los Angeles, California (Cora)
Winner Best Film / Honorable Mention - LA Shorts Awards; Los Angeles, California (Cora)
Official Selection - LA Shorts Awards; Los Angeles, California (Cora)
Official Selection - Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival; Sydney, Australia (Exposé)
Official Selection - Flimmern&Rauschen Film Festival in Munich, Germany (Exposé)
Official Selection - Oklahoma Urban Cinema Festival (Cora)
Official Selection - Reel Teal Film Festival; North Carolina Wilmington (Falling Like
Fools)
2015
Official Selection - Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival (Bird)
Winner, Honorable Mention - Santa Monica Indie Film Festival (Bird)
Official Selection - Santa Monica Indie Film Festival (Hurt)
Official Selection - Santa Monica Indie Film Festival (I'll Take Care of You)
Official Selection - Santa Monica Indie Film Festival (Bird)
Official Selection - CMG Short Film Festival; Hollywood, CA (Exposé)
Winner "Best Trans Comedy Short Film" - North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
(Exposé)
Official Selection - In Short Film Festival; London, England (Falling Like Fools)
Official Selection - Hyperdrive Sci-Fi & Fantasy Independent Film Festival; Sussex,
United Kingdom (Rachel 9000)
Official Selection - 28th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
(Exposé) Official Selection - HollyShorts Film Festival (Solidarity)
Official Selection - North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Exposé)
Official Selections - North Hollywood Film Festival; Ontario, Canada (Bird, I'll Take
Care of You, Rachel 9000)
Official Selection - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (Annabel Lee)
Public Policy Institute/4th Annual Symposium: "Sex in College"; featured SMC screening
with panelists from the Rape Treatment Center and Planned Parenthood LA (I'll Take
Care of You)
Official Selection - "Good Things/Small Packages" - A Night of Micro-Shorts Festival
/ Film Society of Little Rock Short Film Series (Exposé)
Official Selection - LA Asian Pacific Film Festival (Hurt)
Best Shorts International Competition - Award of Merit: Film Short (Bird)
Best Shorts International Competition - Award of Merit Special Mention: Film Short
(Hurt)
Platinum Remi Award Winner for Best Dramatic Original Short - WorldFest Houston International
Film Festival (Hurt)
Official Selection - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival (Bird)
"Impact Award" for local and international educational, economic and artistic impact
of SMC Film Program - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Salvador Carrasco/SMC
Film Program)
Best Screenwriting Award - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Bird)
Best Short Film - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Solidarity)
2014
Winner "Prix Interculturel Special Mention for Best Film Fostering Intercultural Dialogue"
- 34th International Festival of Film Schools (FilmSchoolFest Munchen); Munich, Germany
(Solidarity)
Official Selection - American Pavilion, Cannes Film Festival, France (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (Solidarity) Remi Award Winner - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Guadalajara Film Festival, Mexico (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Other Venice Film Festival (Rachel 9000, I'll Take Care of You)
Finalist - Entertainment Industries Council's "Generation Next" Competition (Valerie)
Winner - Merit Award, International "Best Shorts Competition" / Music Video (Falling
Like Fools)
Winner - Merit Award, International "Best Shorts Competition" / Women Filmmakers (I'll
Take Care of You)
Official Selection - Huesca International Film Festival, Spain (Solidarity)
Winner - Women's Independent Film Festival (I'll Take Care of You)
Winner - Tongal's KCRW Video Project $1,500 award (SMC Film Program)
Official Selection - Roswell Film Fest, New Mexico (Rachel 9000)
Special VIP Screening - San Diego Film Festival (Solidarity)
Official Selection - 18th Los Angeles International Short Film Festival / LA Shorts
Fest (Rachel 9000)
Feature article in VARIETY magazine - "Film Professor Creates Low-Cost Production
Program at Santa Monica College"; July 18, 2014 (SMC Film Program)
Official Selection - 10th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (Coke commercial)
Official Selection - Raindance Film Festival in London, England (Falling Like Fools)
Silver Award - KODAK Worldwide Student Scholarship Program Award ($4,000 tuition scholarship
award and $4,000 KODAK Motion Picture product grant) (Solidarity)
Official Selection - 4th Bangalore International Short Film Festival in India (Rachel
9000)
Official Selection - Guadalajara International Film Festival in Los Angeles (FICG/LA)
(Solidarity)
Honorable Mention Award - Santa Monica Independent Film Festival (Falling Like Fools)
Feature article in The Huffington Post; September 16, 2014 (Falling Like Fools)
Official Selection - New Filmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival (I'll Take Care of You)
Winner - International Best Shorts Competition "Award of Merit: Use of Film for Social
Change" (Annabel Lee)
Winner - International Best Shorts Competition "Award of Excellence: Short Film" (Rachel
9000)
3 Official Selections - Santa Monica International Film Festival (Hurt, Bird, Solidarity)
2013
Finalist - BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Awards)/ LA Student Film
Awards (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Los Angeles Shorts Festival (Solidarity)
Winner Best Drama Short - San Diego Film Festival (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Shot on Red Film Festival (Solidarity)
Official Selection - Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania (Solidarity)
Winner - "My Production Workshop" Commercial Award (Sidral Mundet soft drink; $7,500
cash award) (SMC Film Program)
