Hill 's films earned awards and were featured in significant festivals ( such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival ) . In 2004 , she was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship Grant by the Rockefeller Foundation for her achievements in film . She used this award to begin production on '' The Florestine Collection '' , an animated film inspired by a collection of about 100 hand-sewn dresses she found in a garbage pile in New Orleans in 2001 . This film was completed by Paul Gailiunas and friends and was awarded the Short Documentary Award at the 2011 DOXA Documentary Film Festival . In 2008 , the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar posthumously gave Hill its Charles Samu Award , given to an animator whose work conveys " a universal message illuminating our sense of world community . " In 2007 , Harvard Film Archive established the Helen Hill Collection , a repository of films , drawings , photographs , art works , writings , music , and ephemera . Ten of Hill 's animated and experimental works are available for archival loan and exhibition as a compilation reel of 16 mm film prints
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Helen Hill