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Experience & Education

Executive Assistant, Authentic Talent & Literary Management, CURRENT

Assistant, United Talent Agency, 2022-2024

Agent Trainee, United Talent Agency, 2022

Royalties and Accounting Agent, Cinema Management Group, 2022

Business Affairs Intern, Monster Sessions, 2021

Creative Development Intern, The Montecito Picture Company, 2021

Programming Intern, NFFTY, 2020

Director, Orange County Film Festival, 2020

Chapman University, 2018-2022

  • B.S. Business Administration, International Business - Argyros College of Business

  • B.F.A. Creative Producing - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

  • DKA Cinematic Fraternity

FilmEd Academy of the Arts, 2015-2018

National YoungArts Foundation, LA Regional Session, 2018

California State Summer School for the Arts, Film, 2017

Co-Director, SoCal Student Film Festival, 2016-2017

Full Film Accolades

How To Be A Slut Without Dying (2026)

Mad Summer (2025)

  • Winner, Best Short Screenplay, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Coverfly Top 1% in Genre/Format & #4 in Family Shorts

  • Semifinalist, Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Spring 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 9

  • Finalist, The Bridgeport Film Fest

  • Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

glide (all the people i’ll never be) (2025)

  • Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Nominee, Best Narrative, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Winner, Best Short Narrative (Young Creator), Urbanworld Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Raindance Film Festival

Sacrificios (2022)

  • Winner, Best Actress: Alma Muniz, Sivar En Cortos

  • Nomination, Best Actor: Gary Gunter, Sivar En Cortos

  • Nomination, Best Film, Sivar En Cortos

  • Nomination, Best Screenplay, Sivar En Cortos

  • Nomination, Best College Filmmaker (Larissa Salazar), Austin Revolution Film Festival

  • Nomination, Best University Film, Austin Revolution Film Festival

  • Nomination, Best Short Film, Student World Impact Film Festival

  • National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) Official Selection

  • Sivar En Cortos Official Selection

  • Legacy Theatre Film Festival Official Selection

  • Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions at PinewoodStudios Official Selection

  • Venice Shorts California Official Selection

  • Beaufort International Film Festival Official Selection

  • Gasparilla Int'l Film Festival Official Selection

  • CineYouth Film Festival Official Selection

Tomorrow Never Came (2021)

  • Semi-Finalist, Palm Springs Movie Awards

  • Official Selection, Scout Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions at PinewoodStudios

  • Official Selection, Latino & Native American Film Festival

Locked Down (2021)

  • Winner, Auber International Film Festival

  • Nomination, Best Drama 19 to 24, Scout Film Festival

  • Semi-Finalist, Palm Springs Shorts

  • Semi-Finalist, Palms Springs Movie Awards

  • Quarter-Finalist, London Film & Television Festival

  • Quarter-Finalist, New York City Film & Television Festival

  • Official Selection, Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions at PinewoodStudios

  • Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Official Selection, Online Isolation Short Videos Festival

  • Official Selection, Quarantine International Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Legacy Theatre Film Festival

For Kate (2020)

  • Winner, Audience Award, National Film Festival For Talented Youth 2020

  • Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Nomination, Best Student Short, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Nomination, Best Student Director, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Nomination, Best Young Actress: Cadence Goblirsch, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Nomination, Best Actor: David Michael Trevino, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Nomination, Best Original Score: Bill Conn, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Finalist, New York Movie Awards

  • Semifinalist, Rhodes Island International Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Anchorage International Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Beverly Hills Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Cannes Indie Short Awards

  • Official Selection, Female Voices Rock Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Hollywood Verge Film Awards

  • Official Selection, Indie Shorts Fest

  • Official Selection, Sedona International Film Festival

Hey Neighbor (2019)

  • Finalist, KCET Fine Cut Festival of Films

  • Official Selection, Scout Film Festival

An Open Letter to Mimi Walters (2018)

  • Winner, Kathy Reichgerdt Inspiration Award, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY)

  • Winner, Noam Chomsky Award, South Bay Student Video Festival

  • Second Place, Youth Free Expression Film Contest

  • Official Selection, LINOLEUM Animation Festival

Uknighted (2017)

  • Winner, Best Producer: Jackie Lee, Orange County Film Festival

  • Winner, Best Director: Jessica Stossel, Orange County Film Festival

  • Winner, Best Production Design: Cassidy Johnson, Orange County Film Festival

  • Semi-Finalist, Film School Shorts

  • Official Selection, Orange County Film Festival

  • Official Selection, SoCal Student Film Festival

  • Winner, Best Actor: Blake Borders, Orange County Film Festival

  • Winner, Best Actor: Blake Borders, SoCal Student Film Festival

Slush Puppy Love (2016)

  • Semi-Finalist, Film School Shorts

  • Official Selection, All American High School Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Orange County Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Malibu Teen Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Phillips Academy Interscholastic Film Festival

  • Official Selection, SoCal Student Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Delta Moon Student Film Festival