Exhibitions
Blue Ribbon
American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, California, 1990
Best Feature Documentary
The Athens Film Festival, Athens, Ohio, 1989
The 11th Annual Atlanta Third World Film Festival, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1991
Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Crossing Boundaries in Feminist History, Douglass College, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 1990
Director's Choice Selection
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, West Orange, New Jersey, December 1989
6th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, September 28 to October 7, 1990
Chicano Art, Resistance and Affirmation, An Interpretive Exhibition of the Chicano Art Movement, 1965-1985, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September 1990
Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, December 21, 1989 Creteil Women's Film Festival, Creteil, France, March 1989
Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing the Border, Conference of Women Filmand Video Makers, Mexico/United States, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, November 29,1990
The Denver Museum of Natural History, El Dia de los Muertos, The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art, Denver, October 29, 1990
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Mexican Day of the Dead Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan, October 3 to November 3, 1991
The Documentary Festival of New York, New York, 1989
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Havana, Cuba, December 16, 1989
Outstanding Cinematic Achivement
The Best Of Category, Documentary Film
The National Latino Film and Video Festival, New York City, August 1991
The 5th Annual Film Arts Festival, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California, November 2-5,1989
The Flaherty Film Seminar, August 1989
Hispanic Heritage Month/Mes de la Cultura Hispana, KCET, Los Angeles, California, September 15 to October 14, 1991
Honors
International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, Californis, 1989
International House of Philadelphia, Neighborhood Film/Video Project, Latin American Visions, 1989
Margaret Mead Film Festival, Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y., September 1990
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, Mexico on Film, Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, October 27, 1990
The Roxie, San Francisco, California, November 5,1989
San Antonio Cinefestival, San Antonio, Texas, January 31 to February 4,1990
Special Jury Prize
Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1990