Film

2025

Breaking into New Hollywood: LATimes (Simon & Schuster) - Featured Person
PROOF Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) - Panelist, Breaking into New Hollywood: LATimes
Born Creators podcast: Directing Big Creative Energy with Kayla Robinson - Guest

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture (Baltimore, MD) - Screening and Fiber Art Workshop, Quilted Education
Milwaukee Film Black Lens Program (Milwaukee, WI) - Screening, Quilted Education
Berkeley Reel Film Festival (Berkeley, CA) - Official selection, I Used to Love Her
Hip Hop Film Festival (New York, NY) - Official selection, I Used to Love Her

Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival (Hot Spring, AR) - Official Selection, Quilted Education
BraveMaker Film Fest (Redwood City, CA) - Official Selection, I Used to Love Her
Sacramento Black Film Festival (Sacramento, CA) - Official selection, I Used to Love Her
Charlotte Film Festival - Social Justice Film Judge
The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show, PBS Wisconsin (Madison, WI) - Special Exhibition, A Celebration of Black History Quilts by Karen Hinton Robinson
Deep In The Heart Film Festival (Waco, TX) - Official Selection & Nominee, Quilted Education
Wyncote Fellowship - Nominee & PBS Annual Meeting Sponsee
PBS Reel South: Season 8 | 'I love this place, and I hate this place. I am this place.' - Featured Filmmaker, Quilted Education
BraveMaker: Black History Celebration (Redwood City, CA) - Filmmaker & Panelist, Quilted Education
Celebrating Black History Month - Quilted Education: Piecing our History Together (San Antonio, TX) - Filmmaker & Speaker

Features & Interviews

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Opening Night a success for Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Deadline - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Reveals Lineup For 32nd Edition
PBS Wisconsin & Great Wisconsin Quilt Show - Interview with Quiltmaker & Storyteller, Karen Hinton Robinson, and Filmmaker, Kayla Robinson
Madison365 - Quilt exhibit in Madison today celebrates Black history
WORT FM - Histories Told Through the Art of Quilting
PBS Wisconsin - Quilter celebrates and shares Black history through her work
Texas Film Commission - Made in Texas: Quilted Education filmmaker Kayla Robinson
Fresh & Fried Hard - Perfect for Juneteenth Family Viewing: Quilted Education on PBS
PBS NC - National Quilting Day 2023
PBS - Wishing Every Day was National Quilting Day
PBS - Black Quilters Historians and Memory Keepers
Reel South - 'Quilted Education' Filmmaker Interview: Kayla Robinson speaks on the importance of Black History Month education

New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, LA) - Official Selection, Quilted Education
Austin Film Festival (Austin, TX) - Official Selection, Quilted Education
New York Film Week (Online) - Official Selection, Ball is Ball
Charlotte Film Festival (Charlotte, NC) - Official Selection, Ball is Ball
BraveMaker Film Festival (Redwood City, CA) - Official Selection & Speaker, Ball is Ball

Features & Interviews

A Dose of Black Joy and Caffeine Podcast | S4: Ep 51 - Spotify | Apple Podcasts

Cannes Lion - Gold - Film Craft - Achievement in Production
Cannes Lion - Silver - Film Craft - Script
Cannes Lion - Silver - Film Craft - Editing
D&AD - Yellow Pencil - Editing - Film
D&AD - Yellow Pencil - Direction - Film
D&AD - Graphite Pencil - Writing for Advertising - Film
D&AD - Wood Pencil - Film - Tactical
D&AD - Shortlist - Casting - Performance
One Show - Gold - Film: Innovation & Transformation - Innovation in Lockdown
One Show - Silver - Film: Online Films & Video - Long Form: Single
One Show - Silver - Interactive & Online - Online-only Video: Single
One Show - Silver - Moving Image Craft: Innovation & Transformation - Innovation in Lockdown
One Show - Bronze - Moving Image Craft: Direction - Single

Features & Interviews

2015 ADCOLOR Future
2014 & 2013 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP)