Awards & Grants
- The California State Library, California Civil Liberties Public Education Program Grant, and partial funding from the Noda Family for We the People Series, a seven-part educational documentary series on the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans and their families during WW II.
- Ava National Award recognizing outstanding work in video production for We the People Video Series.
- Videographer Award of Excellence, Omni International Award, Telly Award for videography, and editing Spirit of the Trees, a series of six documentaries exploring the link between trees and forests and Native American Cultures.
- Millennium Award, and Ava National Award recognizing outstanding work in video production for Service, Communication and Technology in a Rural Community.
- March of Dimes Grant to produce You Can Do It!, a video program designed to help drug addicted pregnant women to stop taking drugs.
- March of Dimes Grant to produce I Got My Mom Back, a video program for kids whose parents are currently on drugs.
- The Videographer Award of Distinction recruitment video, National Semiconductor Corp.
- Communicator Award documentary: The Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh
- Telly Award finalist for Healthy Kids, an HIV/Aids Education Video Series for Rural Communities
- Gabriel National Broadcasting Award: Best Documentary, for The Face of Wisdom: Stories of Elder Women
- Three international film and video festivals for Best Documentary and Best Multi-Cultural Film - The Face of Wisdom: Stories of Elder Women Series Producer/Director
- Rockefeller Foundation: Major funding for directing and editing a twelve-part video series, Canticle To The Cosmo
- Rockefeller Foundation: Major funding for producing and directing an eight-part series The Face of Wisdom: Stories of Elder Women
- HIV/Aids education grant for Healthy Kids, California Department of Education
- Gabriel National Broadcasting Award for directing and photographing a series of PSAs on children's feelings, Feelings Just Are
- Telly Award winner, public relations video program, A Passion for Life
- Telly Award finalist for Music Video Allahadiyyah
- Telly Award finalist, documentary That All May Have Life
- Funding for film production, Presbytery of the Pacific, Los Angeles CA
- Grant for further study, Catholic Comm. Foundation, Los Angeles CA
- Grant for further study, NCPA, Los Angeles CA
- Achievement in Communication Excellence Award, Pittsburgh Radio and TV Club