 In 2003 a Fulbright career grant took her to New York where she worked on her scripts with Marketa Kimbrell at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and with Laurie Hutzler.She is a member of the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy and has served as a member of the jury at international film festivals and on committees of international organizations.In 1987, her first film "The Encounter" won a Hellenic Ministry of Culture Award.