I'm thrilled to share that our film Domestic Animals, co-directed with the extraordinary Sandy Siquier, has received a Merit of Awareness (Honorable Mention) at the 2026 Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles.

On September 26th, 2026, my 2011 short Centripetal returns to the screen at Shorts & Beats ~ Venezuela, organized by the Miami Short Film Festival at the Deering Estate. Fifteen years after its Audience's Choice win in Shanghai, it screens again among the work of fellow Venezuelan filmmakers — a night that, underneath everything, is about memory, identity, and resistance.

On Tuesday ,July 7th, I received official notification from Dean Michael Tick that I have been named the Maurice E. & Dorothea I. Shaffer Art Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. I'm deeply honored, and still taking it in.