Awards

Honors and Awards

Undocumented: A Dream of Education, short documentary

• Best Director at All That Moves Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022.
• Best Film at Tampa Bay International Film Festival, Tampa Bay, Florida, 2022.
• Top Film Award – First Place at the National Communications Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2022.
• Best Female Director Award, Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, India, 2022.
• Best Inspirational Film Award, Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, India, 2022.
• Finalist, WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, Houston, Texas, USA, 2023.
• Audience Award for Best Short Film, Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2023.

Umbanda: Offerings of Faith, feature documentary

• Best Feature Documentary at All That Moves Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022.

The Great Adventure of the Bentley Girls, Feature Screenplay

• Best Screenplay, Fan Fiction Film and Writing Festival, USA, 2018.
• Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Competition, USA, 2019.

Rodrigo Herrmann – Life and Works,short documentary

• Audience Choice Awards – 1st Runner Up, Great Lakes International Film Festival – Eerie, PA, 2016.
• Bronze Remi Award in Short Documentary Production, 50^th Annual WorldFest Houston (2017), Houston, USA.

A Envenenadora (The Poisoner), short experimental film

• Winner Best Experimental Film, 2015 Blaquefyre Independent Film Festival.

Death Expectancy, short screenplay

• Certificate of Excellence in the VII SkyFest Film and Script Festival, 2013.
• Finalist in the 2013 FRAPA – Screenplay Festival of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• Top 10 Finalist in the Reel Writers Screenplay Contest, 2013.
• Top 3 Finalist in the 2014 Lindsey Film Festival.
• The Gaze, Short Narrative Film
• Winner Best Narrative Short Film, Little Muddy Media Arts Festival, 2011.

3 ½ Minutes, short experimental film

• Awarded for Achievement in Motion Pictures and Media Arts in Film Editing in the 1st Annual SPC-TV Film and Television Awards, 2011.

Artistic Exhibitions

My Not-So-Righteous Life, feature screenplay

• University Film & Video Association Conference, Savannah, GA, USA, 2023.

Undocumented: A Dream of Education, short documentary

• Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, Premiere, 2022.
• University Film and Video Association Conference, Online, 2022.
• Tampa Bay Latin International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2022.
• I, Immigrant, Burbank, CA, 2022.
• All That Moves International Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022.
• Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Region II Conference, Huntsville, TX, 2022.
• National Communications Association 108^th National Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2022.
• Bettiah International Film Festival, Bettiah, India, 2022.
• Houston Latino Film Festival, Houston, Texas, USA, 2023.
• WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, Houston, Texas, USA, 2023.
• Heatwave Media and Film Festival, Huntsville, Texas, USA, Opening Night Film, 2023.
• Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2023.
• Hispanic Serving Institution Week, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville,  Texas, USA, 2023.

The snowstorm of 1975, short documentary

• University Film and Video Association Conference, Online, 2021.
• Toronto Multicultural Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2021.
• Festival RNAB, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022.
• Rotary International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2022.
• Brazil New Visions Film Fest, Brazil, 2022.
• Streetside Cinema, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, 2022.

Umbanda: Offerings of Faith, feature documentary

• University Film and Video Association Conference, Online, 2020.
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as part of the Afro-Atlantic Histories Exhibition, World Premiere, November 2021.
• Cine Passeio, Brazilian Premiere, December 2021.
• All That Moves International Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2022.
• Blue Star International Film Festival, Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro,

Umbanda: Offerings of Faith, short documentary

• All Voices Film Festival, Amazon Prime Video, USA, 2019.
• Brazil Meets Gmünd, Brazilian Arts Festival, Gmünd, Austria, 2019.
• Sigmund Freud University, screening and Q&A with graduate students, Linz, Austria, 2019.
• IntimaLente Festival, Caserta, Italy, 2019.
• The Lift-Off First Time Filmmaker Sessions, Online, 2019.

Blame it on Smiley, short documentary

• University Film & Video Association Conference, Augsburg, MN, 2018.
• New Mexico Route 66 Film Fest, Moriarty, NM, 2019.
• The Lift-Off First Time Filmmaker Sessions, Online, 2019.

The Great Adventure of the Bentley Girls, feature screenplay

• University Film & Video Association Conference (2017), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• Fan Fiction Film Festival, New York, NY, USA, 2018.
• FutureFemmeFest: Screenwriters, London, UK, 2019.
• ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Competition, USA, 2019.

Rodrigo Herrmann – Life and Works, short documentary

• Premiered at the 34^th Annual Music Festival of Curitiba (2016), Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
• 69^th Cannes Film Festival – Short Film Corner (2016), Cannes, France.
• Festival Liberté (2016), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
• University Film & Video Association Conference (2016), Henderson, NV, USA.
• Artcroft Film and Video Festival (2016), Millersburg, KY, USA.
• Great Lakes International Film Festival (2016) – Eerie, PA, USA.
• Festival de Cinema de Caruaru (2016), Caruaru, PE, Brazil.
• 50^th Annual WorldFest Houston (2017), Houston, USA.
• International Christian Film Festival (2017), Orlando, USA.
• The Narrow Way Film Festival (2017), Philadelphia, USA.
• Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (2017), Wales, UK.
• Houston Latino Film Festival, Houston, USA, 2018.
• Brazil Meets Gmünd, Brazilian Arts Festival, Gmünd, Austria, 2019.
• Sigmund Freud University, screening and Q&A with graduate students, Linz, Austria, 2019.

Death Expectancy, short screenplay

• Official Selection, VII SkyFest Film and Script Festival, Certificate of Excellence
• Official Selection, 2013 FRAPA (Screenplay Festival of Porto Alegre, Brazil), Finalist
• Official Selection, 2013 Reel Writers Screenplay Competition, Top 10 Finalist
• Official Selection, 2014 Lindsey Film Fest, Top 3 Finalist

In The Eyes of Others, short narrative film

• Screening at the 2012 Girls Make Movies Summer Camp, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA.
• MFA Thesis Show – In The Eyes of Others, screening of Thesis Film, Guyan Auditorium, SIU, Carbondale, IL, USA, 2012.

There and Back Again: A Networked Performance for Internet and Radio.

• Group live performance broadcasted at Radio Futura, as part of the 2011 Future Places Festival: Digital Media and Local Cultures, Porto, Portugal.

A Envenenadora (The Poisoner), short experimental film

• Screened at the 2010 MCMA MFA Exhibition, Carbondale, IL, USA.
• Official Selection, 2015 Blaquefyre Independent Film Festival, IL, USA.

The Gaze, short narrative film

• Official Selection, 2011 Little Muddy Media Arts Festival, SIU, IL, USA.
• Official Selection, 2016 Blaquefyre Independent Film Festival, IL, USA.
  3 ½ Minutes (Short Experimental Film)
• Official Selection, 1st Annual SPC-TV Film and Television Awards 2011, SIU, IL, USA.

The Death of the Poet, short experimental film

• Official Selection, 2010 Little Muddy Media Arts Festival, SIU, IL, USA.

A Redenção da Bicicleta (The Redemption of the Bicycle), short narrative film

• Screened at the 2008 UFPR Winter Festival, Antonina, Brazil.