 Turnip Theater Festival NYC"Coitus-Hateus"
BEST ACTRESS
BEST DIRECTOR
1998 |  New Jersey State Council on the Arts$15,000
DISTINGUISHED ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
for Multi-Disciplinary Achievement
1988 |  International Film&TV Festival of NY"How to be Donna Reed"
Nick at Night - Viacom
GOLD MEDAL |
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 WMIFF Festival.jpg |  Los Angeles Movie Awards.jpg |  Film Fest New Haven"Sullivan's Last Call"
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
1997 |
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 Cinekink Film Festival"Sullivan's Last Call"
HONORABLE BEST MENTION
2009 |  Chicago International Film Festival"Sullivan's Last Call"
CERTIFICATE OF MERIT
1997 |  East Village Film Festival"Sullivan's Last Call"
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
1998 |
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 More Magazine Screenplay Competition"Mafia Wives, Incorporated"
QUARTER FINALIST
2010 |  Moviemaker MagazineARTIST TO WATCH
Student, younger generation, and mid-career American filmmakers who are writing the history of the present. Any ten minutes of one of these filmmaker's films has more genuine insight into life than the complete work of Oliver Stone, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino
and Spike Lee.
Todd Haynes, Tom Noonan, Sean Penn, Francesca Rizzo, Jim Jarmusch... |  Sundance Institute Screenplay"Talk to Me"
LEVEL TWO
1999 |
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 Action on Film Festival"The Poet Englestrom"
BEST PERFORMANCE
2010 |  Skyfest Film & Script Festival"The Poet Englestrom"
Directed by Francesca Rizzo
First Place Short Film
2010 |  Harvard Film Archive |
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 Stepping Stone Film Festival"The Poet Englestrom"
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2009 |  Skyfest"Five Valid Reasons for Murdering Lisa"
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2011 |  Action on Film Festival"Five Valid Reasons for Murdering Lisa"
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2011 |
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 Telly Awards"This is Lynne Thigpen"
Directed by Francesca Rizzo
MovieBaby Productions
SILVER TELLY |  Telly Awards"Neurotic in New York"
Directed by Francesca Rizzo
MovieBaby Productions
SILVER TELLY |  Telly Awards"Behind the Scenes with David Shatraw"
Directed by Francesca Rizzo
MovieBaby Productions
SILVER TELLY |
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Honors
“You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)