Since receiving a challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2010,[3] Borscht Corp. has spearheaded productions by untested moviemakers and provided a creative platform for underrepresented (often Latin American) identities in film.

[12] Borscht Corp. productions have seen media coverage from sites, television networks, and publications as varied as Art Papers,[13] CBS News,[14] Interview,[15] The New Yorker[16] and VICE.

[24] In 2015, Borscht Corp. was the subject of two retrospectives: one at the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the Cineglobe International Film Festival,[25] and another at the Independent Filmmaker Project's Media Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Thirteen of Borscht Corp.'s core members and alumni—Bernardo Britto,[28] Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer,[29] Terence Nance,[30] Celia Rowlson-Hall,[31] Marnie Ellen Hertzler,[32] Barry Jenkins,[33] Alex Lim Haas,[34] Robin Comisar,[35] Sam Kuhn,[36] Faren Humes,[37] Keisha Rae Witherspoon[38] and Sebastián Silva[39]—have been named to Filmmaker Magazine's annual list of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

[44] Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva's (collectively Mayer\Leyva) short video Scenic Jogging was selected by the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice to be a part of their YouTube PLAY exhibition in 2010.