press

Portland Monthly
More Devotedly podcast 
American Theatre Magazine
Conde Nast's "Them"
Oregon ArtsWatch
KBOO
LA Times
Orange County Register

Awards

Oregon Short Film Festival, Best Experimental Film finalist, Winter 2021
Muskoka Queer Film Festival selectee, Winter 2021
Los Angeles Indie Film Festival selectee, Winter 2021
Feel the Reel Film Festival, Best Music Video winner, Winter 2021
​Munich Music Video Awards selectee, Winter 2021
Indie Shorts Awards Cannes selectee, Winter 2021
Redwood Shorts & Scripts Festival selectee, Winter 2021
Oregon Arts Commission Arts Build Communities grantee, Winter 2021
Tin House Scholar, Winter 2021
IndieFEST Film Awards finalist, Winter 2021
Alder International Short Film Festival — Best Music Video winner, Autumn 2020
Open Window International Film Challenge, Best Music Video finalist, Autumn 2020
Queen Palm International Film Festival selectee, Autumn 2020
Across the Globe Film Festival selectee, Autumn 2020
​European Cinematography Awards finalist, Summer 2020
Canadian Cinematography Awards, Best Music Video winner, Summer 2020
Prague International Monthly Film Festival, Best Music Video winner, Summer 2020
Festigious Los Angeles Film Competition, Best Music Video winner, Summer 2020
Los Angeles Film Awards selectee, Summer 2020
Tracks Music Award selectee, Summer 2020
Goa Short Film Festival selectee, Autumn 2020
Oregon Cultural Trust grantee, Autumn 2020
Portland Area Theatre Alliance grantee, Autumn 2020
Honorable mention, Best Music Video, Prague International Monthly Film Festival, Autumn 2020
Finalist, New Letters' Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction, Autumn 2020
Portland Art Museum grantee, Summer 2020
Mellon Foundation grantee, Summer 2020
Production work featured on BBC, Summer 2020
Oregon Community Foundation grantee, Summer 2020
City of Beaverton grantee, Summer 2020
All Classical Radio grantee, Summer 2020  
Queer Hero award, Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, Summer 2020
Jeremy Wilson Foundation grantee, Spring 2020
Literary Arts grantee, Spring 2020
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art grantee, Spring 2020
Collins Foundation grantee, Spring 2020
Multnomah County Cultural Coalition grantee, Spring 2020
Featured writer, Portland Underground Film Festival, Winter 2020
Tin House Scholar, Summer 2019
Regional Arts and Culture Council grantee, Spring 2019
Portland Underground Film Festival finalist, Winter 2018

residencies

Suttle Lodge artist in residence, Winter 2020
Arcosanti Urban Laboratory artist in residence, Fall 2019
Portland Parks and Recreation artist in residence, Spring 2019
Oregon State University's Trillium Project poet in residence, Spring 2019​

Reviews

for "Lilies"

• "Captures the real essence of our days." — Portia Munson
• "A dream-like, luscious, and vibrant film with cathartic truths. Stunning!" — Willie Little
• "Unsettling and tender." — Sarah Turner
• "Familiar, close, so real, so visceral. This poem is a gift." — Corbin LaMont
• "Empathetic, timely...present and inviting." — Rhiannon Flowers
• "A film filled with dream-like, luscious and vibrant video, mixed with unexpected insertions of contemporary animation. Their cathartic truth consists of vivid descriptions, as they bear witness to life during the days of Covid-19. Stunning!" — Willie Little
• "Each time I watch it, I find new moments to love...how queer survival can look so many different ways." — Renée Muzquiz
• "Poignant, luscious, devastatingly tender. What is life giving? A breath, a breeze, a bird, a garden, a gaze at the grocery store, a loaf of ancestral bread. What isn't this film so beautifully about?" — Kady Monroe
• ​"Joni speaks from a grounded place and pulls from a deep well of centered knowing." — Jackson Wai Chung Tse 謝瑋聰
  

for "Self Defense"

• "Powerful, angular prose." — Judith Murciano