FILM FESTIVAL SELECTIONS AND AWARDS
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Curtain Director, Writer, Producer
Official Selection: New York CineFest (2024) Official Selection: Jersey Shore Film Festival (2024) Official Selection and Spotlight: RiseFlix (2024) Official Selection: Rome Music Video Awards – Rome, Italy (2024) Honorable Mention “Best Narrative Musical Short” Rome Music Video Awards Unmanned Director, Co-Writer, Producer Official Selection: Milan Gold Awards – Milan, Italy (2022) Official Selection: Kansas City FilmFest International – Kansas City, MO (2022) Official Selection: Midwest Slam Fest – Franklin, OH (2022) Official Selection: Scene Awards – Green Bay, WI (2022) Official Selection: Wine, Women & Film Awards – Milan, Italy (2022) Official Selection: Toronto International Women Film Fest – Toronto, Canada (2022) Official Selection: Top Indie Film Awards – Tokyo, Japan (2022) Won “Best Direction” Feedback Female Film Festival – Los Angeles, CA (2022) Won “Best Direction” Thinking Hat Fiction Challenge – West Bengal, India (2021) Won “Best Short Film” Medusa Film Festival – Albuquerque, NM (2021) Semi-Finalist “Best Women Empowerment Short” – San Francisco Indie Shorts (2022) Semi-Finalist: “Best Narrative Short” Mindfield Film Festival – Albuquerque (2022) Honorable Mention: Big Apple Film Festival – New York, NY (2022) Nova Executive Producer, Co-writer, Script Supervisor Produced by Only Today TV in California and Oregon Released on International Astronomy Day, May 2, 2020 Screening at Film Space– St. Paul, MN (2020) Spark Moments Co-Director Produced by Airplanes for Breakfast and Spark the Series Official Selection of See 18 Film Series at Minneapolis St. Paul Airport (2020) Screening at the Coven in Minneapolis, MN (2019) Amelia Co-Writer/Director, Executive Producer Produced by Airplanes for Breakfast and Spark the Series Winner “Golden Gateway Award for Best Short Film” Mumbai Film Festival (2018) Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival Kids Int. Film Festival (2018) Official Selection Roshd International Film Festival – Tehran, Iran (2018) Official Selection InScience International Science Film Festival – Netherlands (2018) Screening at the New York Hall of Science (2018) Screening at the Science Museum of Minnesota and Film Space (2018) The Last Job Co-Writer/Director, Executive Producer Produced by Hello Sunshine Films Official Selection Frozen Film Festival – St. Paul, MN (2018) Finalist for the Sundance New Voices Lab (2017) Under One Roof Writer, Co-Director, Executive Producer Produced by Hello Sunshine Films Official Selection Speechless Film Festival – Mankato, MN (2017) PODCAST Teen Medium Written by Cristina Pippa, Music/Lyrics by Sharon Kenny Shorescripts Fiction Podcast Contest (Finalist, Top 15) (2022) Austin Film Festival “Second Rounder” (2021) |
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ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
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2024 University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Conference Cleveland, OH Film Screening: Curtain
2024 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Las Vegas, NV Panel Selected: “Adaptation in Scripts and Practices” 2023 Faculty Research Grant from The Graduate College, Missouri State University Production of short film: Curtain 2022 Graduate Mentorship Award – Judy Awards, Missouri State University 2022 Best of Competition in the Faculty Screenwriting Competition BEA Las Vegas Script for Narrative Podcast: Teen Medium 2021 Best of Competition in Faculty Screenwriting Competition BEA Las Vegas Short Subject: Unmanned 2021 University Film and Video Association Conference - Virtual Feature-length Screenplay presentation: It’s Been Real 2020 College of Arts and Letters Special Project Fund, Missouri State University Production of short film: Unmanned 2019 Best of Festival in the Faculty Screenwriting Competition BEA Las Vegas Feature-length Screenplay: Journey to Questica 2019 University Film and Video Association Conference Minneapolis, MN Feature-length Screenplay Presentation: Journey to Questica |
Dean Shawn Wahl with Cristina Pippa at Inaugural Judy Awards
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