The Penetrating Needle screened at these fests:
- 2006: Exposicao Percursos da Arte no Seculo XXI, Sao Paulo, Brasil
- 2006: New Forms Festival, Vancouver, BC
- 2006: Cinema-Scope Hamptons, Wainscott, NY
- 2006: Memefest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2005: Korte digitale film festival,” Vleigtoren, The Hague, Netherlands.
- 2004: Slowtime…? Le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany.
- 2003: Salón Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba (catalogue). Arlene really wanted to go to Cuba, but was too confused about how to travel there.
- 2003: Brave Destiny Film Festival, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York (first prize winner).
- 2003: Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, LIU/Spike Lee Screening Room, New York
- 2002: Propaganda,” Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland. For CSPAC’s inaugural visual art show, Arlene showed The Penetrating Needle in hall usually used for music recitals.