Her award-winning short films have been exhibited and nominated in competition at numerous international events and prominent film festivals. Short drama PARIS/SEXY won the UK Film Council’s award for Best British Short at the 2011 London Short Film Festival and Paxton won Best Woman Director at the same festival in 2015 for her film, PULSE. Recently selected for Guiding Lights 8, the UK’s most prestigious professional mentoring scheme and has the great fortune to be mentored by Christopher Hampton. She was also part of BFI NETWORK’s development programme during London Film Festival 2017.