• Directing Award: US Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

  • Peabody nomination

  • Emmy nomination (2)

  • National Magazine Award (2)

  • Forbes 30 under 30

  • New America Fellow

  • Sundance Catalyst Fellow

  • Overseas Press Club Award (2)

  • Peabody Future of Media Award

  • World Press Photo Award (2)

  • Edward R. Murrow Award (3)

  • National Press Photographer Award (8)

  • POYI Multimedia Photographer of the Year

  • Punch Sulzberger Award, American Society of News Editors

  • Front Page Award (2)

  • Deadline Award

  • Livingston Award Finalist

  • Gates Scholar

  • Student Academy Award, Documentary

Awards for Sugarcane

2024 Sundance - Directing award, US Competition

2024 Full Frame - Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award 

2024 Sarasota Film Festival - Best Documentary Award 

2024 Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival - Winner, Jury Award Documentary Competition 

2024 SLO Film Festival - Best Documentary Feature, George Sidney Independent Film Competition 

2024 SFFILM - Jury Winner, Best Documentary Film Award 

2024 Margaret Mead Film Festival - Filmmaker Award 

2024 SIFF - Official Competition Special Jury Prize 

2024 Millennium Docs Against Gravity - Special Mention for Grand Prix Bank Millennium Award

2024 Mountainfilm - Best Documentary Film Award

2024 IFF Boston – Special Jury Prize Winner

2024 Doc Edge — Best International Documentary, Best International Documentary Sound

2024 Provincetown — The John Shlesinger award for Documentary Feature

2024 Nashville Film Festival — Best Documentary

2024 Hamburg Film Festival — Political Documentary

2024 Bend Film Festival — Best Indigenous Documentary