[1][2] With the Australian artist/director Lynette Wallworth, she produced the virtual reality work Collisions, which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and Awavena, which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary.
[5] Newnham's 2013 film The Revolutionary Optimists was nominated for an Emmy and won the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award.
[6] That film also spawned the data-mapping website Map Your World which is an open source data/mapping/storytelling platform.
[7] In 2006 she co-directed the Independent Lens / PBS documentary Sentenced Home, also nominated for an Emmy, about three Cambodian-American men - raised in the United States - who found themselves eligible to be deported to Cambodia after 9/11.
With Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, she produced They Drew Fire, about the Combat Artists of WWII, and co-wrote the companion book, distributed by HarperCollins.