"Alexandria, a Love Story" won a Hellenic Ministry of Culture award as well as awards at the international film festivals of São Paulo in Brazil, Gran Canaria in Spain and Houston in the USA, while film historian Professor Karalis called it one of the best Greek films of the 2000 decade in the history of Greek cinema.In 2003 in New York while researching archives within the framework of the script development for her feature film "A Friendship in Smyrna", during the period of her Fulbright scholarship, she discovered forgotten visual material on Smyrna as well as on the migration of the Greeks to America.