SCREENPLAYS
• THE ELOPEMENT OF GIOVANNINA Best Script, World Independent Cinema Awards, Milan (new work)
KABI National Endowment for the Arts grant; New York State Council on the Arts grant; Winner Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Award for Best Screenplay, Nantucket Film Festival.
UTOPIA Panavision New Filmmaker and Experimental Television Center grants; Independent Creative Artist Award for Dramatic Short Film, Cinema Arts Centre International Film Festival; Audience Award for Dramatic Featurette, Film Fest New Haven; Independent Images Award, WHYY-TV, Philadelphia.
THE WOMAN FROM AMERICA Screen adaptation of renowned South African author Bessie Head's short story by the same name. Finalist, ITVS.
TERRACES Finalist: Sundance Institute.
SALT LAKE SUNDOWN Finalist: Houston International Film Festival. Semi-Finalist: Writers Guild of America Contest.
TELEPLAYS
FDR (upcoming) History Channel, writer/senior story producer
LINCOLN History Channel, writer/senior story producer (Critics Choice nominee)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT History Channel, writer/senior story producer (Critics Choice nominee)
GRANT History Channel, writer/senior story producer
SCARS OF NANKING History Channel, executive producer/writer (two Emmy nominations, winner Outstanding Cinematography)
THE WORLD WARS History Channel, writer, (multiple Emmy nominations)
FRANCISCO, EL JESUITA History Latin America, story producer, (International Emmy Award)
LEGENDS AND LIES Fox TV, writer (1 episode)
TURNING OUT THE RED LIGHTS: Human Trafficking & Prostitution, A+E Networks, writer/producer (Investigative Reports series)
DANGEROUS DECEPTION: Counterfeit Goods A+E Networks, writer/producer (Investigative Reports series)
RAW: Girls Gangs and the Hood A+E Networks, writer/producer (Investigative Reports series)
PROGRAMMED TO KILL History Channel Asia, writer
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL AGAIN, Travel Channel, writer/director/producer
TURNING THE TIDE, Travel Channel, writer/director/producer
“Among the bright spots of the festival is Frederick Rendina’s UTOPIA, an alternately moody and funny New York story in which a struggling actor begins to grow paranoid after finding a threatening letter stuffed in the door of his car. ”
