Karin was awarded with the prestigious Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC Cannes 2008; an award given to five filmmakers around the world doing creative and innovative work in documentaries. She also scooped the Best South African Documentary Award at the 2008 Durban International Film Festival and the 2008 Apollo Film Festival for her film 50 Years! Of Love. Her film Meaning of the Buffalo premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2004 (where it was in the festival’s Top 10 Must See Films). The film also screened at the Berlin Film Festival, Hot Docs, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was selected as a New York Times Critics Pick in 2004. Karin has also shot documentaries for well-known international filmmakers, such as Jennifer Fox, and teaches Independent Documentary making at Selkirk College, Canada and in Johannesburg.