Roberta Cantow was recognized with her first grant from The American Film Institute while still a graduate film student at NYU. Through the years, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and others provided grants for the completion of four film works. She received a N.Y. area Emmy for her film Clotheslines about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives. Her films and videos have garnered several Best of Category citations in film festivals around the country as well as an Award of Excellence for Dreamtime in 2008, and an Award of Merit for Not a Still Life, and in 2016 for Accordions Rising, all in the documentary category, from the Global Accolade Competition. Her other work, including If This Ain’t Heaven, The Book of Laughs, Iluminada (all 16mm film) and Mosaics, Doctor Clown, Moon Festival, and Bloodtime Moontime Dreamtime (a trilogy), has been exhibited in many of the venues for independents, including a presentation in the Cineprobe Series of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her four 16mm films were selected for archival preservation by the Donnell Media Center, New York City, in 2001. All of her work will be housed in the Sophia Smith Women’s History Collection of Smith College (in perpetuity).