Awards & Honors

· Filmmaker and Professor Brent E. Huffman wins the Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professorship

Uyghurs Who Fled China Now Face Repression in Pakistan

· Winner, News Features Award, Rory Peck Awards. 2021

· Winner, Silver Telly in the Documentary Category. 2022

· Television Premiere, VICE News Tonight Showtime. 2022

· Film Festival Premiere, Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival. 2022

· Film Festival Premiere, American Documentary Film Festival. 2022

Finding Yingying

· Nominee, Outstanding Investigative Documentary, 42nd News & Doc Primetime Emmy. 2021

· Chinese Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Documentary category. 2020

· Breakthrough Voice Jury Award, SXSW. 2020

· Special Jury Prize, BendFilm Festival. 2020

· Best Documentary Feature Documentary Feature, DC Chinese Film Festival (AKA ALULA Film Festival). 2020

· Best Documentary Feature, Loudoun Arts Film Festival. 2020

· Best Documentary Feature, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. 2020

· Special Jury Mention, San Diego Asian Film Festival. 2020

· Emerging Filmmaker Award Documentary Feature, VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. 2020

Saving Mes Aynak

· Best Direction Award from the Buddha International Film Festival, held at the National Film Archive of India. 2017

· Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award of the Festival of Archaeological Films of Bidasoa. 2016

· Grand Prize and the Audience Award of the XVth Festival Icronos of Bordeaux. 2016

· Grand Prize from AGON – the 10th International Meeting of Archaeological Film. 2016

· Best Documentary Film at Life After Oil Film Festival, Sardinia, Italy. 2016

· Green Spark Award at the American Conservation Film Festival. 2016

· 37th Telly Award and People’s Choice Telly Award in the Film/Video Documentary category. 2016

· Silver Plaque for the Best Documentary in the Arts & Humanities category in the Chicago International Film Festival TV Awards. 2016

· Special Jury Mention at the Master of Arts Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. 2016

· $50,000 grant from the Reva and David Logan Foundation. 2016

· Best Film One-Hour International Award at CinemAmbiente International Environmental Film Festival. Turin, Italy. 2015

· Grand Prize and Audience Award at Arkhaios Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Festival. South Carolina. 2015

· The Honorary International Documentary Film Award 2015 from the International Academic Forum and was the “Featured Documentary” at the Forum and Media Asia 2015 Conference in Kobe, Japan. 2015.

· Best Film and Best Educational Film at the International Archaeology Film Festival in Oregon. 2015

· Abu Rayhan Biruni Award, honoring the Best Film in the Archaeology, Architecture, History and Urban Planning section, at the Ahvaz International Science Film Festival in Iran. 2015.

· MacArthur Foundation Grant 2014.

The Colony

· Telly award. 2012

· Cine Golden Eagle. 2012

The Women’s Kingdom

· Best Documentary Short Award at the Fresno Film Festival 2009.

· Cine Golden Eagle in their 2007 competition.

· College Academy Award at the 33rd Annual Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles 2007.

· Silver Medal from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2006

· International Documentary Association Award Nominee, 2006

· Frontline/World Journalism Fellowship, PBS for

· KTVU-TV Award, University of California at Berkeley

A Lion in the House

· Primetime Emmy in the nonfiction category. Brent E. Huffman was an editor and shooter on the four-hour-long documentary that follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families.

· A Lion in the House was recently remastered for Netflix.

The Weight of the World

· Cine Golden Eagle Award, 2006

· Knight Journalism Reporting Fellowship

· UC Berkeley Reporting Fellowship Graduate School of Journalism

Damming the Angry River

· Emmy Winning Season of Natural Heroes – the first national television series of independent films on the environment 2008.

Welcome to Warren

· Grand Jury Special Award of Recognition by the Grand Jury of the Discovery Channel/American Film Institute’s SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival 2004 in Washington DC. Distributed by Films Media Group.

· Western Psychological Association honoree

What if…

· National College Emmy and Kodak Film Grant by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2005.

· Good News Award, Sacramento Chapter of American Woman in Radio and Television

Others

· Foreign Press Association Scholarship, Foreign Press Association of New York for our international body of work.

· Knight Foundation Grant, University of California at Berkeley for international China stories.

· Willie Kee Scholarship, Bay Area Chapter of Asian American Journalists Association.

· Peter Marino Award, SF/Northern California Chapter of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.

· Simone Otis-Cox Reporting Grant, University of California at Berkeley.