Awards and Honors: Official Selection, First-Time Filmmaker Sessions Volume 5.  Official selection, Greater Lehigh Valley Film Festival. Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema. 

"Based on a true story of survival and the lengths we go for family through the story of Jewish freedom fighter and Holocaust survivor Leon Weinstein. As Nazi powers took over Poland and out of his family of 90 people, only he, his wife, and his daughter remained alive at the beginning of World War Two. The film brings the questions: what do you carry with you when you are losing everything, and what must you leave behind to survive?"

Awards and Honors: Official Selection, Greater Lehigh Valley Film Festival. Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema. 2022.

"Inspired by the story of Bee's brother from Russia. A young autistic person is encouraged to come out of their many layers of masks to reveal the true them."

Awards and Honors: Honorable Mention for the song, "He's Not to Blame" National Musical Theatre Songwriting Competition. 2025.

"In a retelling of the Brothers Grimm stories, Little Red Riding Hood (Red) goes on adventures with her friends the Big Bad Wolf (Dean) and Nate (Goldie Lock's Twin Brother) to find the beauty within themselves as the world heads for a great battle."

Songs in the series:  No Matter the Winds or Tides, Worth a Try,  Just Play My Game, Cut My Roots, My Parade, My Parade (Villian Reprise), Nighttime Lullaby, Queen of Mean, and He's Not to Blame.

For more information about the show from the award-winning creator of the series herself,  go to  this link of her website! 

(Anabel Smith - Der Schwarzwald)

(Der Schwarzwald - The Ithacan)