"Puppies for Sale" was awarded "Best Short Film"and was celebrated in over twenty film festivals worldwide including Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, The Berlin International Film Festival, Giffoni Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, Rimouski International, Montevideo Uruguay, The Heartland Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival, Oberhausen Kurtz Film Festival, Temecula Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival, American Short Shorts Tokyo, Rio International Film Festival Brazil, New Zealand International Film Festival, BFI London International Film Festival, and many others.