SCREENWRITING AWARDS & HONORS
Sister
(2021) - ONE-HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMA/HISTORICAL
A controversial female evangelist in Jazz-Age Los Angeles combines charismatic faith-healing, Hollywood theatrics and political gamesmanship to build a soul-saving multimedia empire, while navigating chauvinistic rivals, a fickle press, and her own crisis of faith. Inspired by true events.
WINNER - BEST TV PILOT
Sedona International Film Festival 2022
FINALIST
Golden Script Competition, 2021
Selected for annual "Golden List" of top unproduced screenplays
SEMIFINALIST
StoryPros Awards, 2021
Creative World Awards, 2021
Back Fires
(2021) - ONE-HOUR TV PILOT, DRAMA/HISTORICAL
In the wake of World War II, an eclectic group of California inmates are chosen for an unorthodox prison reform experiment that relocates them to an isolated mountain camp to fight wildfires in exchange for reduced sentences - only to face hostile opposition from furious locals and within their own ranks. Inspired by true events.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition, 2022
GENRE WINNER - HISTORICAL/BIOPIC
Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition, 2022
FINALIST (TOP 3)
Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, 2022
FINALIST
Sedona International Film Festival 2022
Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, 2022
SEMIFINALIST
ScreenCraft Drama Competition, 2021
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2022
Kosmos
(2021) - ONE-HOUR TV PILOT, SCI-FI/DRAMA/HISTORICAL
At the height of the Cold War space race, a team of free-thinking Soviet rocket scientists-turned-UFOlogists must outwit the KGB, the military, and a corrupt psychiatrist after receiving an alien transmission warning of an imminent nuclear apocalypse.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2021
FINALIST (Top 5)
Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest, 2022
SEMIFINALIST
StoryPros Awards, 2021
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The Sound Side
(2020) - FEATURE, HORROR
A bachelor party surf trip descends into paranoia and violence when three friends awaken sinister forces on a remote North Carolina island.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Richmond International Film Festival, 2021
FINALIST
LA International Screenplay Awards, Summer 2020
SEMIFINALIST
Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, 2021
ScreenCraft Horror Competition, 2020
FILMMAKING AWARDS & HONORS
Escape from Extinction
NARRATED BY HELEN MIRREN
(2020) - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE • WRITER, EDITOR
OFFICIAL SELECTION
San Diego International Film Festival, 2020
Breckenridge Film Festival, 2020
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, 2020
Nature Without Borders Film Festival, 2020
Ojai Film Festival, 2020
Southampton (UK) Film Festival, 2020
International Social Change Film Festival, 2020
International New York Film Festival, 2021
BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM
Doc LA, 2020
Generation Emigration
(2016) - DOCUMENTARY SHORT • DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CAMERA
WINNER
Best Short Documentary, European Short Film Festival, 2017
Young Adami Media Prize, 2016
FINALIST
New York Festivals Film & TV Awards, 2016