2004 - Graduate Diploma in Journalism, Concordia University, Montreal 

2005 - BA, Religious Studies/English-Cultural Studies, McGill University,  Montreal 

2017 - Sapporo Peace Award for Welcome to Canada 

2014 - World Poetry Film Festival, Empowered Filmmaker Award for Taxi Casablanca

2008 - Canada Council for the Arts, Production Grant, Media Arts 

2008 - Quebec Council for the Arts, Production Grant, Media Arts

2008 - National Film Board of Canada, ACIC Program, Post Production Grant

2008 - Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Production Grant

2008 - Fondation du Maire de Montreal, Production Grant

2008 - PRIM, Media Arts Centre, Post Production Grant

2007/08 - CIDA, Development Information Program, Development & Production Grant

2006 - SODEC,  Development Grant

2004 - International Development Research Centre, Journalism Fellowship ($20,000) 

2016 - Welcome to Canada (Director/Producer); Global Oneness Project, 20 min. 

2009 - Taxi Casablanca (Director/Producer); Safran Films Inc., 60 min. 

2008 - Canadaville, USA (Associate Producer); DLI Productions, 52 min. 

2007 - Inside the Great Magazines (Associate Producer); DLI Productions, 3-part series