His short films have played at SXSW, New Directors/New Films, and Venice, where his film A Chjàna won the Controcampo Award for best short. The film also earned him a Nastro D’Argento Special Mention from the Association of Italian Film Critics (SNGCI). Carpignano recently completed the Sundance Writing and Directing Labs for the feature-length version of A Chjàna, and was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He is currently an MFA candidate at NYU Tisch, where he won the Martin Scorcese Young Filmmakers Award. He is also the recipient of the Mahindra Award at Sundance.