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Film

2024

Accolades

• Sony Future Filmmaker Awards - Shortlist

2023

Accolades

• Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival (Hot Spring, AR) - Official Selection

• Charlotte Film Festival - Social Justice Film Judge

• The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show, PBS Wisconsin (Madison, WI) - Special Exhibition, A Celebration of Black History Quilts by Karen Hinton Robinson

• Deep In The Heart Film Festival (Waco, TX) - Official Selection & Nominee

• Wyncote Fellowship - Nominee & PBS Annual Meeting Sponsee

• PBS Reel South: Season 8 | 'I love this place, and I hate this place. I am this place.' - Featured Filmmaker

• BraveMaker - Black History Celebration (Redwood City, CA) - Filmmaker & Panelist

• Celebrating Black History Month - Quilted Education: Piecing our History Together (San Antonio, TX) - Filmmaker & Speaker

Features & Interviews

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Opening Night a success for Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

• Deadline - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Reveals Lineup For 32nd Edition

• PBS Wisconsin & Great Wisconsin Quilt Show - Interview with Quiltmaker & Storyteller, Karen Hinton Robinson, and Filmmaker, Kayla Robinson

• Madison365 - Quilt exhibit in Madison today celebrates Black history

• WORT FM - Histories Told Through the Art of Quilting

• PBS Wisconsin - Quilter celebrates and shares Black history through her work

• Texas Film Commission - Made in Texas: Quilted Education filmmaker Kayla Robinson

• Fresh & Fried Hard - Perfect for Juneteenth Family Viewing: Quilted Education on PBS

• PBS NC - National Quilting Day 2023

• PBS - Wishing Every Day was National Quilting Day

• PBS - Black Quilters Historians and Memory Keepers

• Reel South - 'Quilted Education' Filmmaker Interview: Kayla Robinson speaks on the importance of Black History Month education

2022

Accolades

• New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, LA) - Official Selection

• Austin Film Festival (Austin, TX) - Official Selection

• New York Film Week (Online) - Official Selection

• Charlotte Film Festival (Charlotte, NC) - Official Selection

• BraveMaker Film Festival (Redwood City, CA) - Official Selection & Speaker

Interviews

• A Dose of Black Joy and Caffeine Podcast | S4: Ep 51 - Spotify | Apple Podcasts

• BraveMaker Podcast | Film Fest RECAP with filmmakers

• LA Times | Directing a short film is expensive. How to crowdfund it

• BraveMaker Podcast | Live Chat with Filmmaker Kayla Robinson

• Blkflmmkr | Teaser Tuesday @32:35

• Women and Hollywood | Tackling Trauma: Crowdfunding Picks

Advertising

2021

Accolades

• Cannes Lion - Gold - Film Craft - Achievement in Production

• Cannes Lion - Silver - Film Craft - Script

• Cannes Lion - Silver - Film Craft - Editing

• D&AD - Yellow Pencil - Editing - Film

• D&AD - Yellow Pencil - Direction - Film

• D&AD - Graphite Pencil - Writing for Advertising - Film

• D&AD - Wood Pencil - Film - Tactical

• D&AD - Shortlist - Casting - Performance

• One Show - Gold - Film: Innovation & Transformation - Innovation in Lockdown

• One Show - Silver - Film: Online Films & Video - Long Form: Single

• One Show - Silver - Interactive & Online - Online-only Video: Single

• One Show - Silver - Moving Image Craft: Innovation & Transformation - Innovation in Lockdown

• One Show - Bronze - Moving Image Craft: Direction - Single

2018

Accolades

• Clio - Bronze - Film: Short Form

• Clio - Bronze - Film Technique (Direction)

• Cannes Lion - Bronze - Film Lion: Screens & Events

• D&AD - Graphite Pencil - Direction for Film Advertising

• One Show - Bronze - Location - Specific Video

• One Show - Merit - Craft: Use of Music/Licensed/Adapted Music

• One Show - Merit - Craft: Online Films & Video/Long Form

• One Show - Merit - Craft: Online/Short Form/Single

2016

Accolades

• One Show - Merit - Innovation in Radio

• One Show - Merit - Custom Content

• Radio Mercury Awards - Best Use in Integrated Campaign

• Radio Mercury Awards - Finalist - Most Innovative Use

• Montreaux International Awards - Gold

• Epica Awards - Silver

• IAB Mixx Awards - Silver

• Kinsale Shark Awards - Bronze - Radio

• Kinsale Shark Awards - Shortlist - Integrated

• Warc Media Awards - Grand Prix

• Omnicom Emerging Star

Interview

• AdAge | Stop Talking About Transformation in Adland -- Do It

2015 ADCOLOR Future
2014 & 2013 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP)