Domestic Animals has earned a Certificate of Merit for Shot Composition from the Rochester International Film Festival — one of the longest-running short film festivals in the world, established in 1959 and held at the George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre. Directors Sandy Siquier and Alex Mendez Giner received detailed written feedback from the volunteer jury, who praised the film's cinematography, color palette, nonverbal acting, and its haunting allegorical vision of dome

Cinema is most powerful when it leaves the screen and enters the room. On April 11th, Sandy Siquier and I screened Domestic Animals at Lugar Común in Miami, hosted by Grupo de la Diversidad Terapéutica, a collective of Spanish-speaking mental health professionals. What followed was an hour and a half of dialogue that bridged cinema, psychology, and community. Exactly what this film was made for.

Domestic Animals, co-directed by Sandy Siquier and Alex Mendez Giner, won the Evelyn Hibbs Domestic Violence Awareness Award at the 27th Bare Bones International Independent Film & Music Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The filmmakers also presented the panel "Lessons from the Set: Directing and Visualizing Domestic Violence" at the Three Rivers Museum, joined by Evelyn Hibbs of the WISH Foundation, bringing cinema and advocacy into conversation.