Pictures, and Two Knives, a martial arts film for director Wong Kar-Wai and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Filmmaking She wrote, directed, produced and edited a short, silent film, In the Eye Abides the Heart, filmed in Buenos Aires, which premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, then played the international festival circuit. In 2009, she went on to write, direct, produce and edit her debut feature, Baraboo, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and won Best First Feature awards at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Wisconsin Film Festival. Sweeney has been on the board of directors of Film Independent since 2000, and was elected chair of the board in 2012. Film Independent is a non-profit arts organization that produces the Independent Spirit Awards, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Film Independent Series at LACMA. In 2003, she joined the faculty of the Division of Writing for Screen and Television in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She was installed as the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor in 2012. 2010-present Between 2010-15, she was a Fulbright Film Specialist and traveled for the State Department on Fulbright grants to Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Myanmar and Cuba to mentor filmmakers in those countries. Sweeney is vice president and founding member of the DesertX non-profit Board of Directors. DesertX was a site-specific art exhibition in the Coachella Valley, February through April, 2017. She is a member in good standing of AMPAS, BAFTA, the DGA, and the WGA, where she is on the WGA Independent Writers Committee. Awards and nominations 2000: The Straight Story (nominated) Independent Spirit Award Best Film (shared with Neal Edelstein) and Best First Screenplay (shared with John Roach) 2002: Mulholland Drive (won) BAFTA Award for Best Editing 2002: Mulholland Drive (nominated) AFI Film Award – AFI Movie of the Year (shared with producers Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire, Tony Krantz) Selected filmography As film editor Twin Peaks TV series (1 episode, season 2, 1990) (episode #2.7) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Hotel Room TV series (1993) Lost Highway (1997) The Straight Story (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) Baraboo (2009) As assistant editor Blue Velvet (1986) (assistant editor) Wild at Heart (1990) (first assistant film editor) As producer Nadja (1994) Lost Highway (1997) The Straight Story (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) Inland Empire (2006) Baraboo (2009) As writer The Straight Story (1999) Baraboo