Awards

CANCER BOY & WIDOW GIRL
• Quarterfinalist – Inroads Fellowship Season 5, 2022 (Jax Smith, Zack Hamm)

ACCUSED
• Top Forty – Crazy8’s Films, 2022 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)

DEFECT
• Top Ten – CFC Netflix Project Development Accelerator
• Semifinalist – ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition, 2020
• Semifinalist (Top 100) – Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Sizzle Competition, 2020
• Quarterfinalist – ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, 2018
• Quarterfinalist – ScreenCraft Film Fund, 2017

DISCORD
• Quarterfinalist – Inroads Fellowship Season 5, 2022 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)
• Quarterfinalist – Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)
• Semifinalist – Table Read My Screenplay Austin, 2019 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)
• Finalist – Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards, 2019 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)
• Quarterfinalist – ScreenCraft Film Fund, 2018 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor, Ashley Alexander)
• Semifinalist – ScreenCraft Short Screenplay, 2018 (Jax Smith, Helene Taylor)

LIVING WILLS
• Quarterfinalist – Screencraft Film Fund, 2017 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal and Briana Rayner)

STAKEOUT
• Nominated – ‘Best Female Directed Short’ EDA award, Whistler Film Festival, 2017 (Jax Smith, Briana Rayner)
• Nominated – Leo Award for Best Actress, 2018 (Briana Rayner)
• Winner – ‘Award of Merit’, One-Reeler Short Film Competition, 2018 (Jax Smith, Briana Rayner)

MENTAL
• Winner – WIFTV Image Spotlight Award, 2019 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• Winner – Leo Award for Best sound 2018 (John Sawa)
• Winner – Leo Award for Best production design 2018 (Jamie Chrest)
• Nominated – Leo Award for Best Short Drama 2018 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• Nominated- Leo Award for Best Screenwriting 2018 (Meeshelle Neal and Jax Smith; Story by Meeshelle Neal)
• Nominated – Leo Award for Best Costume Design 2018 (Katie Goold)
• Winner – ‘Best Experimental Short Film’, Female Eye Film Festival 2018 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• Winner – ‘Underdog Award’, Raindance Vancouver, 2018 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• Winner – ‘Outstanding Cinematography’, Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, 2018 (Seth Campbell)
• Winner – ‘Outstanding Editing’, Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, 2018 (Devin Karringten, Mike Jackson)
• Winner – ‘Outstanding Lead Performance’, Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, 2018 (Meeshelle Neal)
• Winner – ‘Award of Excellence’, One-Reeler Short Film Competition, 2018 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• Winner – ‘Achievement in Filmmaking Best Short Form’, Covellite International Film Festival, 2017 (Jax Smith, Meeshelle Neal)
• BravoFACT Recipient, 2016