Awards:

  • Audience Choice Award - Indy Shorts Film Festival

  • Festival Favorite and Best Documentary - San Diego Young Filmmakers Festival

  • Audience Choice Award - Ocean Youth Eco International Film Festival

  • Judges Favorite for Documentary - Balboa Del Mar Film Festival

  • Best Youth Documentary (less than 40 min) - Raw Science Film Festival

  • Best Student Film - Grand Cine Carnival Maldives

  • Best High School Film - Visionaries Film Festival

  • Best High School Documentary - Brightside Film Festival

  • Award of Excellence - Nature Without Borders International Film Festival

  • Best Student Filmmaker - Eastern Europe Film Festival

  • Gold Award Short Documentary - Paris Film Awards

  • Best Young Filmmaker - Better Earth International Film Festival

  • Best Student Film - Florence Film Awards

  • Award of Merit Special Mention - Nature / Environment / Wildlife (Student) - Accolade Global Film Competition

  • 3rd Place Best Student - Wildlife Conservation Film Festival

  • Best Young Filmmaker (Honorable Mention) - Global Trend Climate Change Film Festival 

  • Spark Award Nominee - All American High School Film Festival

  • Short Film (Honorable Mention) - Changing Tides Ocean Film Festival 

  • Finalist - Fraser Shorts Film Festival

  • Best Young Filmmaker (Honorable Mention) - Indie Shorts Film Fest

  • Best Young Climate Storyteller (Honorable Mention) - My Name is Climate Film Festival

Festival Selections & Screenings:

  • Indy Shorts Film Festival (USA)

  • Heartland Film Festival (USA)

  • Mill Valley Film Festival (USA)

  • United Nations Association Film Festival (USA); also selected for UNAFF in Schools program

  • Coronado Island Film Festival (USA)

  • Sidewalk Film Festival (USA)

  • Lake Placid Film Festival (USA)

  • EKOFILM (Czechia)

  • Filmambiente International Film Festival (Brazil)

  • Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (Mexico)

  • DaVinci International Film Festival (USA)

  • All American High School Film Festival (USA)

  • Wild and Free Film Festival (USA)

  • NatureTrack Film Festival (USA)

  • Catalina Island Film Festival (USA)

  • Raw Science Film Festival (USA)

  • International Animal and Environmental Film Festival (FICAA) (Mexico)

  • San Antonio Film Festival (USA)

  • SDGs Short Film Challenge (Nigeria)

  • San Diego Environmental Film Festival (USA)

  • S.O.F.A. Film Festival (Animals, Wildlife, Environment, Conservation) (Cyprus)

  • Scinema International Science Film Festival (Australia)

  • Santa Cruz Film Festival (USA)

  • Dana Point Film Festival (USA)

  • Sea Change Film Festival (UK)

  • Boston International Kids Film Festival (USA)

  • Like You Children’s Film Festival (USA)

  • Healdsburg Film Festival (USA)

  • Nature Without Borders International Film Festival (USA)

  • Mequinensa International Film Festival (Spain)

  • Petra International Film Festival (Indonesia)

  • Fayetteville Film Festival (USA)

  • Changing Tides Ocean Film Festival (USA)

  • Los Angeles Student Film Festival (USA)

  • Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA)

  • Visionaries Film Festival (USA)

  • Reel East Texas Film Festival (USA)

  • Alpine International Film Festival (Switzerland)

  • The Brightside Film Festival (USA)

  • Lighthouse Lens Film Festival (USA)

  • Jaisalmer International Film Festival (India)

  • San Diego Young Filmmakers Festival (USA)

  • Ocean Youth Eco International Film Festival (Hong Kong)

  • Better Earth International Film Festival (India)

  • Balboa Del Mar Film Festival (USA)

  • Global Trend Climate Change Film Festival (Bangladesh)

  • Grand Cine Carnival Maldives (Maldives)

  • Eastern Europe Film Festival (Romania)

  • Accolade Global Film Competition (USA)

  • Indie Short Fest (USA)

  • Embu International Film Festival (Kenya)

  • Paris Film Awards (France)

  • Florence Film Awards Festival (Italy)

  • East Village Film Festival (USA)

  • My Name is Climate Film Festival (UK)

  • Sandpoint Film Festival (USA)

  • South Pacific Film Festival (New Zealand)

  • Broken Arrow Film Festival (USA)

  • SunChild International Environmental Film Festival (Armenia)

  • Fraser Shorts Film Festival (Australia)

  • Abuja International Film Festival (Nigeria)

  • Central Coast Film Festival (Australia)

Poster for a documentary film titled "Constellations of the Sea" by Addie Knoll, featuring numerous film festival laurels awarded in 2026, including UNAFF, Indy Shorts, Ekofilm, Walk On, Wildlife Conservation, Balboa del Mar, San Diego Young Filmmakers, Carnival Maldives, Ocean Youth, Better Earth, Catalina, Sea Change, East Texas Reel, Santa Cruz, Safile San Antonio, Cinema Science, and DaVinci.