Awards, Screenings, Galleries

AWARDS: Best Documentary Film, Aasha International FF, India/ Merit Award, Nature Without Borders International FF/ Merit Award for Awareness, Awareness FF, Los Angeles/ Borusan Contemporary Art Prize, Istanbul/ Kodak Hollywood Film Grants (various)/ Audience Award, Smogdance, Los Angeles

SCREENINGS and GALLERIES: 
2024: Best Documentary Film Award, Aasha International Film Festival, India
2022: Finalist, Rome Prisma Independent Film Festival, Italy; Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico City
[2021: PhD candidate, Art & Digital Industries, University of East London, UK]
2020: Nature Without Borders International FF, Delaware; Arab American National Museum, Michigan; TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, USA/ Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Scotland
2019: Solo show, Tecopa Art Gallery, Death Valley, CA; Hazel Eye Film Festival, Nashville, Tennessee; CalArts Expo 2019, Los Angeles, USA/ Tlanchana Fest (film & digital art), Valle de Bravo,
Mexico/ 32nd Festival Les Instants Video, Marseille; MicroActs (artist film), London; The Table (video art show curated by Mariana Lemos, chaired by LUX resident curator Zaiba Jabbar); British Film Institute Flare, London; Newlyn Film Festval, Cornwall, Europe
2018: Artist Residency ‘Mirroring Resilience', La Maida Institute, LA Dept. Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles; Night of Shorts Shorts, Hollywood, USA
2017: Solo Show & Residency, Art Gallery Tecopa, Death Valley, CA; Award Winner, Awareness Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2016: Elephant Art Space; Emergency INDEX, Los Angeles, USA/ Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2015: movingImage - Borusan Contemporary Art Prize; Nitra Gallery, Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Biennale 5; Art Athena, Greece; Steiner House, London, Europe/ Tecopa Art Gallery, Death Valley, CA, USA
2013-4: Streaming Festival, Audiovisual Art Event; Vibe Gallery, 'Boundless', Southwark Arts Council; Lethaby Gallery, London; ONCA Gallery, 'Making Tracks', Brighton; Outcasting, Moving Image Network, Cardiff, UK/ Platform Gallery, 'Cutting An Assemblage', Canada
2012: Vegas Gallery; Heartbreak Laundrette (permanent space); East End Film Festival; Fringe! Film Festival; London Underground Film Sessions; V22, London; Girls On Film, Manchester, P'Silo Image Contre Nature, Marseille; Cheries-Cheries 18, Paris, Europe
2011: East End Film Festival; Whitechapel Gallery Open Screening with Gil Leung; Rich Mix; Fringe! Film Festival; London Underground Film Sessions; Portobello Film Festival; 13 Moons (Indigenous Film Screenings at SOAS, UCL); Conference: Revolting Bodies, Politics & Gender, Brighton University; 24th Festival Les Instants Video P'Silo Images Contre Nature, Marseille/ Oslo Queer Festival, Europe/ The Garage (relational space), San Diego, USA/ Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, 'I Am Not Afraid', Ottawa; Pride, London, Canada
2010: Native Spirit Film Festival at Amnesty International/ Directing4women Film Festival/ London Underground Film Festival/ Rich Mix, London, UK
2007: Autobody Fine Art, Alameda, CA, USA/ Shunt Gallery, London, UK 
2005: Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; EarthVision TV, Santa Cruz, CA; Freedom Cinema Festival, Park City, UT, USA
2004: ImageOut Film Festival, New York, USA/ distributed by Iron Rod Motion Pictures, Toronto, Canada
2003:
MoMA, New York; distributed by Vanguard Cinema, Los Angeles, USA/ British Film Institute, London, UK
2001: Philadelphia Arts TV; MOCA Open Screening; actionSpace (gallery), Los Angeles, USA
Distribution: Iron Rod Motion Pictures, Canada; Vanguard Cinema, Los Angeles, USA