Film Festivals, Awards, Broadcasts

Picked Wiss

TYPE CAST

2021 | Dramatic narrative | 7:26
  • Adirondack Film Festival (NY): Official Selection *
  • Monadnock International Film Festival (NH): Official Selection *
  • Chesapeake Film Festival (MD): Official Selection *
  • Fifteen Minute Film Festival (WV): 2nd Place *
  • Spring Grove Caledonia Film Festival (MN): Official Selection *
  • Chelmsford Short Film Festival (MA): Official Selection and Honorable Mention *
  • Cosmic Film Festival (FL): Winner (quarterly), Best Short Film *
  • New Haven International Film Festival (CT): Official Selection
  • Snowtown Film Festival (NY): Official Selection / Finalist *
  • Dead in Decatur Film Festival (IL): Official Selection *
  • Subculture Film Festival (FL): Official Selection *
  • Made Here Film Festival (VT): Best Cinematography *
  • Cranford Film Festival (NJ): Winner, Best of Fest (Animation) *
  • Nassau Film Festival (NJ) : Official Selection, Princeton Tiger Award (Animation) *
  • Athens International Monthly Art FF (Greece): Special Mention (Honorable Mention)
  • Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards (Italy): Best Cinematography
  • Hollywood Gold Awards: Gold Award, Original Screenplay
  • New York Movie Awards: Best Indie Short
  • Liberty Film Awards: Honorable Mention (quarterly)
  • Best Indie Film Awards (London, England): Best Indie Experimental Film (Spring Edition)
  • Tounadeau Film Festival (CT): Official Selection *
  • Do It Zero (Gloucester, England): Nominee, Best Short (Do It Short)
  • Defy Film Festival (TN): Official Selection *
  • World Cine Fest: Official Selection
  • New London International Film Festival (NH): Official Selection *
  • Knowlton Film Festival (Knowlton, Quebec) — Special presentation by Orly Yadin *
  • Cannes World Art Festival — Official Selection (awards to be announced later)
  • Paris Awards Film Festival — Official Selection (awards to be announced later)
  • Lonely Wolf International Film Festival — Official Selection; Semi Finalist, Best Editing and Sound
  • Buenos Aires International FF — Official Selection, Experimental Film — event July 10

making cape Point

2019 | documentary | 28:56
  • MidCoast FilmFest: Official Selection *
  • Maine Outdoor Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Georgia Documentary Film Festival: Winner, Best Director *
  • 508 Film Fest: Official Selection *
  • 401 Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Maine Filmmaker Showcase / Maine Film Association (Jan 2020) *
  • Maine Public Television: Feb 13, 15, 2020
  • Vermont Public Television (summer 2020)

THE TOWN THAT MOVED A MOUNTAIN

2017 | documentary | 53:35
  • Maine Outdoor Film Festival: Winner, Best Feature; Winner, Best of Festival *
  • Sanford International Film Festival: Nominated, Best Maine Film and Best Documentary *
  • Emerge Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Adirondack Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Hollywood Screenings Film Festival: Semi-Finalist
  • Mountain Film Festival: Seven Summits Award
  • Snowtown Film Festival (2022 — Watertown, NY): Official Selection *
  • Maine Public Television: Broadcast Jan 2018, Jan 2019
  • Vermont Public Television: Broadcast Dec 10, 2020

GO AROUND AGAIN

2015 | documentary | 21:40
  • Virtual Sail-In Festival, Bilbao, Spain (2020)
  • Sanford International Film Festival: Winner, Best Maine Film *
  • Emerge Film Festival: Nominated, Best Maine Film *
  • Maine Outdoor Film Festival: Nominated, Best Short Feature *
  • New Haven International Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Shawna Shea Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Spotlight Short Film Awards: Bronze Award
  • Sail-In Festival, Bilbao, Spain (2016) *
  • Maine Public Television: Broadcast summer 2025

Despair and the Salt Air

2014 | documentary | 15:17
  • Emerge Film Festival: Official Selection *
  • Sanford International Film Festival: Official Selection *

New England Surfing Excursion

2013 | documentary | 3:09
  • Maine Outdoor Film Festival: Official Selection *







* public screening

Screenplays

The Unreal Life of Pino Smith | 2024
  • Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition — Quarterfinalist
To Kill a Mosquito | 2019
  • The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest: Semifinalist (top 3% of 5,500 submissions)
Breaking Glass | 2018
  • Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition — Official Selection
The Niagara Resolution | 2017
  • Massachusetts Independent FF: Winner, Best Short Screenplay
  • New York Short Film and Screenplay Festival: Finalist
The Tide of Fundy | 2016
  • Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards: Quarterfinalist
Flag WAR | 2016
  • Sanford International FF: Finalist, Script-to-Screen Competition
  • Massachusetts Independent FF: Official Selection
The Old Yard | 2015
  • Massachusetts Independent FF: Winner, Best Short Screenplay
  • Boston International FF (2016): Semifinalist