Her films have screened internationally and she has been honored with an NEA/Rockefeller Interdisciplinary Artist Award, Grand Jury Best Documentary award from the Washington D. C. Independent Film Festival, Judges and Audience Awards from the San Diego Women’s Film Festival, and Director’s Citation Award from the Black Maria Film Festival. In 2006, Gumnit was named one of Film Arts Foundation’s “Film Arts 30,” and profiled in its November/December issue of Release Print magazine.