film fest awards & professional recognition
Recognition, Memberships & Honorable Affiliations
Award & Honors
KIDNAPPING LOVE
Screenplay
Screenplay Competitions:
Official Selection - Nicholls Fellowship Screenplay Competition / Top 15% Award
Official Selection - ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship (2022) / Quarterfinalist
LOVE & VODKA
Producer / Director / Rewrite Screenplay
Official Selection / Closing Night Film: 2024 Cinetopia Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Mi., USA
Pitch Competitions:
Official Selection: 2020 New Enterprise Forum, with featured stakeholder Eastern Michigan University Center for Entrepreneurship, NEF Showcase Presentation and Pitch Pit Contest
Official Selection: 2021 Junior Entertainment Talent Slate Berlinale Pitch Competition
Official Selection: 2021 Hells Half-Mile / Seed&Spark Pitch Competition / Winner
KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, SWEET PEA! short film / 2020
Producer / Actress
Official Selection -- 2022 Green Mountain International Film Festival
Official Selection -- 2022 Vienna International Film Awards
Official Selection -- 2021 Arlington Film Festival
Official Selection -- 2021 New York International Women's Film Festival
Official Selection -- 2021 Festival Angaelica
Official Selection -- 2021 Detroit She Town Women's Film Festival
Official Selection -- 2021 Beaufort Film Festival
Official Selection --2021 Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival
Official Selection - 2021 Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival
Official Selection -- 2021 Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival
Official Selection - 2021 One Reeler Short Film Competition / Special Mention
Official Selection - 2021 Orlando International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2021 Oz Film Festival / Finalist & Special Mention
Official Selection - 2021 Queensworld Film Festival / Winner: Best Emerging Artist - Sophie Meisner (Director, Screenwriter, Actress)
Official Selection - 2021 Shorts Showcase Film Festival / Winner: Best Student Film
Official Selection - 2021 The Scene Film Festival
Official Selection - 2021 Z-Shorts Intl. Film Festival / Honorable Mention
Official Selection -- 2020 One-Reeler Short Film Competition / Winner
Official Selection - 2020 15th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival
Official Selection - 2020 365 Holiday Film Festival
Official Selection - Walla Walla Film Crush Film Festival
Official Selection - 2020 Film Girl Film Festival
Official Selection - 2020 Hollywood Verge Film Awards / Winner: Best Student Film / Nominated: Best Actress
Official Selection - 2020 New York Cinematography Awards / Semifinalist
Official Selection - 2020 Salt House Creative International Film Festival / Winner: Best Actress
Official Selection - 2020 Social World Film Festival
DARCY feature film / 2020
Co-Director, P.G.A. “Produced by” Producer, Actress
Distribution: Virtual Worldwide Cinema Screening & VOD, Herflix, Amazon Prime, Vimeo Plus
Film Festival Run:
Official Selection - Reach Out Film Festival
Official Selection / World Premiere - Twin Cities Film Festival
Official Selection - Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema / Winner “Best Actress” & Nominated “Best Director” & “Best Feature”
Official Selection - Socially Relevant Film Festival /Winner “Best Ensemble”, “Best Actor” and nominated for “Grand Prize Film”
Official Selection – Silicon Beach Film Festival / Winner “Youth Audience Award”
Official Selection - High Falls Women’s Intl. Film Festival / Winner “Therese DePrez Award for Outstanding Production Design”
Official Selection - Influx Magazine Film Awards / Finalist
Official Selection – XIX Film Columbia
Official Selection – Just Be Love Film Festival
Official Selection – Cutting Edge Film Festival
Official Selection – Film Girls Film Screen with Guest Panel Discussion
Official Theatrical Premiere – Proctors Theater, Schenectady, NY
HER TELLING HEART short film / 2012
Screenwriter (Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Telltale Heart”), Producer, Director, Actress
Screening:
TV Film Show on PBS TV WMHT
Film Festival Run:
Official Selection – Asbury Shorts NYC
Official Selection – Reach Out Film Showcase
Official Selection – NYWIFT Summer Shorts Official Program
Official Selection -- Park City Film Music Film Festival / Winner: “Best Performance / Experimental Film”
Official Selection – Collaborations Film Festival
Official Selection – Marina Del Ray Film Festival
Official Selection – Salty Horror Film Festival
Official Selection - Reach Out Film Festival / Winner: “Best Film Sound Post”
Official Selection – Manhattan Film Festival
Premiere Screening – Proctors Theater / Upstate Independents
A FORK IN THE ROAD short film / 2007
Screenplay, Producer, Director
Official Selection - Motion Picture Institute Student Film Festival / Winner: "Best Screenplay"
Official Selection – Electric City Film Festival
Official Selection – New Filmmakers NYC Film Festival
Official Selection – Manhattan Film Festival
Official Selection – Reel Women Intl. Film Festival
Official Selection – Upstate Independents Screening
ANGEL INSIDE short film / 2002
Screenplay, Co-Producer, Lead Actress
“Best First Film” – Calgary $100 Film Festival
Professional Affiliations, Achievements & Memberships
GenXX / Film Fatales / Producers’ Union / Producers’ Guild of America (International Committee & Women’s Impact Committee/Co-Founder); Actors Equity Association / SAG-AFTRA (American Federation of Television & Radio Artists) / New York Women in Film & Television (Communications Committee) / Women in Film, Chicago; Founder/President Emeritus, Upstate New York Women in Film & TV / The Director List / The Alliance of Women Directors / Women in Film & Television International / WIFT Germany – Hamburg; Emeritus Representative Board Member