Awards & Recognitions
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World Film Festival in Cannes, Native America- Best Pilot, 2024
World Film Festival in Cannes- The Oxford Journal- Best Women Script, 2024
Planet Cinema Global Film Awards- Native America- Best TV Script, 2024
YETI FilmFest in Reykjavik- Native America- Best TV Pilot, 2024
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Oxford Script Awards Film Festival- The Oxford Journal- Best Feature, 2024
Cambridge Script Festival- The Oxford Journal- Best Feature, 2024
Big Apple Film Festival- Native America- Best TV Pilot
Stowe Story Labs- The Colorful Life of Lilly Briggs- Best TV Pilot, 2021
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Austin Film Festival- Native America- Best TV Pilot Drama, 2024
Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition- The Colorful Life of Lilly Briggs, 2021Big Apple Film Festival - The Colorful Life of Lilly Briggs- Best TV Pilot, 2021
CineStory Foundation- - The Colorful Life of Lilly Briggs- Best TV Pilot, 2021
CURRENT PROJECTS
NATIVE AMERICA
DRAMA LIMITED SERIES: partnered with Paulo de Oliveira, producer of Outlander & impact producer, Bonnie Abaunza
A teen Native American girl forced to attend an Indian Boarding School run by the Government and Catholic Church in the late 1970s, enters The Harmony World, America as if it had never been colonized, where she learns how to destroy her abusive boarding school and reclaim her culture, but may die trying.
CENTENNIAL SHADOWS
ONE HOUR DRAMEDY teen series with witches and vampires
Four estranged modern 13 year olds learn they’re witches, living amongst vampires, when a haunted half-world underneath their school threatens to destroy humanity.
COMPS: GILMORE GIRLS MEETS HARRY POTTER & TWILIGHT
THE MOURNING CLUB
Coming of Age DRAMEDY ensemble FEATURE
A diverse group of teenagers, each grappling with their own unique and profound loss, finds unexpected camaraderie and healing in 'The Mourning Club.' Guided by an 80s nostalgic and eccentric yet empathetic counselor, they embark on a meaningful scavenger hunt left by one of the boys’ deceased mother through the city of Chicago unexpectedly bonding and each gaining a new sense of self.
THE OXFORD JOURNAL
Women-led DRAMEDY FEATURE, juxtaposed w/historical fiction
When Maeve, twenty three and directionless, tags along to her older sister Olivia's (33) teaching exchange in England, Maeve discovers a personal journal in Oxford, written by and recounting the life of the great author, Dorothy Sayers.
THE COLORFUL LIFE OF LILLY BRIGGS
HALF-HOUR, multicultural CHILDREN/TWEEN DRAMEDY
When 11 year old artist Lilly Briggs’ Native American dad remarries a younger woman and moves in next door to her and her Puerto Rican mother, Lilly learns to navigate life as a multi-cultural middle schooler in a predominantly White town.
COMPS: ANDI MACK MEETS THE BABYSITTER’S CLUB
THE NEW NORTH POLE
Family CHRISTMAS MOVIE
Zoey, wandering to find her purpose in life, lands a job as a North Pole helper, but when rising temperatures in the North Pole cause a dangerous foundational shift, Zoey and Santa’s son find themselves rushing to save Christmas by relocating Santa’s workshop to her sister’s nearly abandoned town where the elves’ magic surprisingly doesn’t work. Finding her purpose is in helping others, she ignites a twinkle of Christmas spirit throughout the town and in her disgruntled sister, while falling for Santa’s heir.
COMPS: NOELLE MEETS ELF
