SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC SCREENINGS

ODC Dance Commons, Any Sunday at Rhythm & Motion, 30th anniversary party 2009
San Francisco City Hall, Saving Malcolm X, 2006
Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum, Fostering Art, 2004
Oxygen Media, Glenda Hope, Ida McCray documentaries, national broadcast, 2001
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (NY & LA), In the Wake, 2002
Black Point Film Festival, Wisconsin, (Honorable Mention) In the Wake, 2002
Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA In the Wake (Official Premier Presentation), 2001
WinFemme Film Festival, Beverly Hills, CA (Critic’s Choice Award) – In the Wake, 2001
U.C. Davis International Film Festival – Davis, CA, (Honorable Mention), In the Wake, 2001
Film Festival of Iranian Cineaste in Diaspora, Canada, New York, Walls of Sand, 2001
Women’s Iranian Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA – Walls of Sand, 2001
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema In the Wake, 2001
Light+Screen Film Festival, (New York, NY) 2000 - Walls of Sand
The Mill Valley Film Festival, Tales From The Heart: The Belly Dance, 1998
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Short Romances, (SF, CA) Tales From The Heart, 1998
Thesync.com, (website) (first contemporary feature in the web) – Walls of Sand, 1998
The Festival of Iranian Films Made in Exile, (Sweden) Walls of Sand, 1997
Short Romances, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (SF, CA) – Tales From The Heart, 1997
Boston Museum of Fine Art Film Festival, Walls of Sand, 1996
Orpheum Theater, (Boston, Mass.) (Calendar Screening), Walls of Sand, 1996
Roxie Cinema, (San Francisco, CA) (Calendar Screening), Walls of Sand, 1996
UCSF Psychiatrists Resident Screening, (San Francisco, CA), Walls of Sand, 1996
Slamdance Film Festival, (Saltlake City, Utah) (Honorable Mention), Walls of Sand, 1996
Umea Film Festival, (Sweden) – Walls of Sand, 1995
Nashville Independent Film Festival, (Tenn.) Walls of Sand, 1995
Film Arts Foundation Film Festival, (SF, CA) Walls of Sand, 1995
Breckenridge Film Festival, (Colorado) Walls of Sand, 1995
Rivertown Film Festival, (Minneapolis) Walls of Sand, 1995
Bay Area Women’s Film Festival, (Berkeley, CA), Walls of Sand, 1995
Big Muddy Film Festival, (Ill.) Walls of Sand, 1995
Palo Alto Film Festival, (Palo Alto, CA) Dance for One, 1987
Art Institute Film Festival, (SF, CA) Dance for One, 1987
Mill Valley Film Festival, (Mill Valley, CA) Dance for One, 1987

GRANTS: The Puffin Foundation Ltd. Artist’s Grant – 2009 for Painted Nails

SELECTED AWARDS
• San Francisco Film Society, FilmHouse Residency Award, 2010
• Black Point Film Festival – Honorable Mention, In the Wake, 2002
• Film Threat, Hollywood’s Independent Voice – Best Unseen Film Award- In the Wake, 2001
• Selected Colds Springs Workshop, sponsored by Miramax Films, Walls of Sand, New York, 1996
• Honorable Mention – Slamdance Film Festival, (Salt Lake City, Utah), Walls of Sand, 1996
• Best Emerging Filmmaker Award, Rivertown Film Festival, Walls of Sand, 1995
• Juror’s Award, Nashville Independent Film Festival, Walls of Sand, 1995