Awards and Accolades

EasterSeals Disability Film Festival: 2025 short film They Say He Snapped… got into the festival

EasterSeals Disability Film Challenge: 2024 Short Film Bipolar Buddies V Buddies with Bipolar got into the festival

48 Hour Film Project: 2023 short film The Real Ross Liverpool got into the festival

EasterSeals Disability Film Challenge: 2023 short film Disclose or Not… Puzzling got into the festival

FREESTYLE MEDIA: distributes MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING on multiple streaming platforms along with selling our DVD on places like Walmart.com

City of Angels Women’s Film Festival: short film plAy Date got nominated for best short short drama

City of Angels Women’s Film Festival: short film plAy Date got into the festival (I wrote, directed, produced, and edited this short film)

Entr’2 Marches Film Festival: MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING won the best script and best actor (I produced this film)

EasterSeals Disability Film Festival: 2022 Entry “Captain Tolerance & the Plant Whisperer VS Global Warming” got into the festival

Austin Film Festival: 2021 Second Round for my feature script kidnap

From the Heart Productions: 2021 Finalist in their grant competition for the feature MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING (I’m producing this and wrote the application.)

From the Heart Productions: 2020 “Hot Film in the Making” in their grant competition for the feature MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING (I’m producing this and wrote the application)

ScreenCraft: 2020 Second Round for their Film Fund Competition with MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING

SkillsUSA: 2019/2020 Gold Medal for PSA in their regional conference

Writers for Writers Fellowship: 2019 Finalist for my feature script DANI

CineStory Fellowship and Screenplay Competition: 2018 Quarter Finalist for my feature script kidnap

Burbank Film Festival: 2017 THE DOMESTIC short film got into their festival (I produced this)

Montana State University – Billings: Outstanding History Graduate

Sundance Feature Film Program: I have twice made their first cut.

Relevant Experience – Writing and Filmmaking

2025 – Present Script Consultant Contract – Montana State Film Commission Office

2025 Community Reader for the High Plains Book Awards

2025 Screener for the Nashville Film Festival

2025 – Present Reader for the Nashville Film Festival

IMDb

2024 – 2025 Volunteer for the Montana International Film Festival (MINT)

2024 Film Curator for the ReelAbilities Film Festival – Los Angeles

Second Round Reader and Reader for Austin Film Festival 2017 – 2025 I read in different categories than I submit

Scriptwriters Network High Concept Competition Reader/Judge for Two Years

Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach Program Reader/Judge for Three Years

Published in Montana Department of Health and Human Services “Prevention Connection” Newsletter

Published in Yellowstone Valley Woman

Published in the Billings Outpost (one of my articles was picked up by CNN Radio.)

Published in The Rook

Published in the Montana Arts and Culture Magazine