Film
2023
Accolades
Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival (Hot Spring, AR) - Official Selection
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
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
BraveMaker - Black History Celebration (Redwood City, CA) - Filmmaker & Panelist
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
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
Reel South - 'Quilted Education' Filmmaker Interview: Kayla Robinson speaks on the importance of Black History Month education
2022
Accolades
New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, LA) - Official Selection
Austin Film Festival (Austin, TX) - Official Selection
New York Film Week (Online) - Official Selection
Charlotte Film Festival (Charlotte, NC) - Official Selection
BraveMaker Film Festival (Redwood City, CA) - Official Selection & Speaker
Interviews
A Dose of Black Joy and Caffeine Podcast | S4: Ep 51 - Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Advertising
2021
Accolades
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
2018
Accolades
Clio - Bronze - Film: Short Form
Clio - Bronze - Film Technique (Direction)
Cannes Lion - Bronze - Film Lion: Screens & Events
D&AD - Graphite Pencil - Direction for Film Advertising
One Show - Bronze - Location - Specific Video
One Show - Merit - Craft: Use of Music/Licensed/Adapted Music
One Show - Merit - Craft: Online Films & Video/Long Form
One Show - Merit - Craft: Online/Short Form/Single
2016
Accolades
One Show - Merit - Innovation in Radio
One Show - Merit - Custom Content
Radio Mercury Awards - Best Use in Integrated Campaign
Radio Mercury Awards - Finalist - Most Innovative Use
Montreaux International Awards - Gold
Epica Awards - Silver
IAB Mixx Awards - Silver
Kinsale Shark Awards - Bronze - Radio
Kinsale Shark Awards - Shortlist - Integrated
Warc Media Awards - Grand Prix
Omnicom Emerging Star
Interview
2015 ADCOLOR Future
2014 & 2013 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP)