"A Lion in the House" won a Primetime Emmy in the nonfiction category. Brent E. Huffman was an editor and shooter on the four-hour-long documentary that follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families.

Damming the Angry River was a part of the Emmy Winning Season of Natural Heroes - the first national television series of independent films on the environment.

The Women's Kingdom won a Cine Golden Eagle in their 2007 competition.

Winner of a Student Academy Award at the 33rd Annual Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles for The Women's Kingdom.

International Documentary Association Award Nominee, 2006 for The Women's Kingdom.

Cine Golden Eagle Award, 2006 for The Weight of the World.

Silver Medal from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2006 for The Women's Kingdom.

Grand Jury Special Award of Recognition by the Grand Jury of the Discovery Channel/American Film Institute’s SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival 2004 in Washington DC for my documentary about maximum security prison life called Welcome to Warren. Distributed by Films Media Group.

National College Emmy and Kodak Film Grant by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2005. For a long form television news story entitled “What If…” examining four minority perspectives in China, France, California, and South America.

International Documentary Association Award Nominee, 2006 for The Women's Kingdom.

International Film Festival Award, 2005 for "Best Editing," The Women's Kingdom.

Foreign Press Association Scholarship, Foreign Press Association of New York for our international body of work.

KTVU-TV Award, University of California at Berkeley for The Women's Kingdom.

Knight Foundation Grant, University of California at Berkeley for international China stories.

Good News Award, Sacramento Chapter of American Woman in Radio and Television for What If…

Willie Kee Scholarship, Bay Area Chapter of Asian American Journalists Association.

Frontline/World Journalism Fellowship, PBS for The Women's Kingdom.

Peter Marino Award, SF/Northern California Chapter of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.

Simone Otis-Cox Reporting Grant, University of California at Berkeley.

Departmental Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley.

Knight Journalism Reporting Fellowship for The Weight of the World, a documentary about the historic presidential elections in Afghanistan.

UC Berkeley Reporting Fellowship Graduate School of Journalism for The Weight of the World a documentary about the elections in Afghanistan.

Western Psychological Association honoree for Welcome to Warren.