Film & Video · Awards
Award-winning films
Short films I directed and edited for national and international film competitions, on refugees, the ocean, climate, and human rights. They earned recognition from YoungArts, the Foundation for Environmental Education’s Young Reporters for the Environment, Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, and RFK Human Rights.
YoungArts Winner
National YoungArts Foundation, Film
Yusra Mardini · 2021
Global 2nd Place
Young Reporters for the Environment International Competition
Ocean Acidification · 2020
Bronze Award
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest
How to Boil a Planet · 2021
Finalist
RFK Human Rights Speak Truth to Power Video Contest
Open Arms · 2021
YoungArts Winner
Yusra Mardini
National YoungArts Foundation, Film · 2021
An animated short on Yusra Mardini, the Syrian refugee who swam beside a sinking dinghy to save the people on board and went on to compete as an Olympic swimmer.
- Role
- Director and animator
Global 2nd Place
Ocean Acidification
Young Reporters for the Environment International Competition · 2020
A short film that makes an invisible, slow-moving crisis visible: the chemistry quietly threatening marine life as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide.
- Role
- Director and editor
Bronze Award
How to Boil a Planet
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest · 2021
Water as a lens to the self: a meditative short that links the warming planet to our own capacity for awareness and change.
- Role
- Director and editor
Finalist
Open Arms
RFK Human Rights Speak Truth to Power Video Contest · 2021
A short film on the fragile social bonds that hold communities together, and the human dignity at stake when they break.
- Role
- Director and editor