Her short films have been screened at film festivals around the world, including the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Aspen Shortsfest, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. She is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Science and Technology Journalism and a Fulbright grant to work on her documentary about the homeless in Los Angeles, The Bigger Picture: A Homeless Life in America.
Her screenplay, "Through The Screen Door," was nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the Independent Spirit Awards in 2006 and won Best Short Film at the TriBeCa Short Film Festival in 2008.