Film Awards & Nominations
Gold Kahuna Award
The Green Standard; Honolulu Film Awards, 2017
Spotlight Gold Award
The Green Standard; Spotlight Documentary Film Awards, 2016
Best Horror Short (Winner)
All Our Yesterdays; Hollywood Horror Fest, 2015
Student Academy Awards (Finalist)
Valhalla, 2003
Best Film Noir (Winner)
A Shadow Before Sunrise; New York International Independent Film Festival, 2004
BET Project CRE8 Screenplay Contest (Finalist)
Pretty Things; 2018
Los Angeles CineFest (Finalist)
An Elder Man; 2017
Walla Walla Movie Crush Challenge
An Elder Man, 2017
Brooks Institute 24P Contest (Winner)
Valhalla, 2003
One Reel Film Festival Filmmaker Challenge
Another Happy Ending, 2005
Invited alongside Jason Reitman, Jay & Mark Duplass, AJ Schnack, Seth Henrikson
Kodak Student Filmmaker Grant (Winner)
A Shadow Before Sunrise, 2004
Fotokem Student Filmmaker Grant (Winner)
A Shadow Before Sunrise, 2004
Pioneer 2880 Contest (Selected Writer/Director)
Go Man Go, 2002
Fiction Awards & Nominations
Writer in Residence
Mount Holly, Vermont; July 2023
Rain Tiger Spotlight Artist (Winner)
East, By God!!; short story, 2007
Pushcart Prize (Nominee)
Fireglass; short story, 2008
Glimmer Train Short Story Award (Finalist)
East, By God!!; short story, 2007
New Rivers Press/Stonecoast Book Prize (Finalist)
And The War Came; novel, 2008
Dzanc Books Best of the Web (Nominee)
Fireglass; short story, 2008