Awards and Festivals

- Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, Best Documentary Cinematography 1999

- Outstanding Historical Programming, National Emmy Award

- Rhode Island International Film Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, Best Documentary 1999

- Asian American International Film Festival, New York, New York, Asian American Media Award 1999

- National Educational Media Network, Silver Apple Award 1999

- American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Society for Visual Anthropology's Highest Award, Award of Excellence

- American Historical Association Annual Meeting, John O'Connor Award 1999

- San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, California

- Kinoforum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Cinequest, San Jose, California

- Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington

- Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota

- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands

- cAAmera 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota (retrospective of all work)

- Boston Asian American Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts

- South by Southwest, Austin, Texas

- Aurora Asian Film Festival, Denver, Colorado

- Cinevegas International Film Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada

- Raw Stock Film Festival, Oakland, California

- Sundance in Seoul International Film Festival 1999, Seoul, Korea