[1] In 2012, she was critically acclaimed for her directorial venture on Stones in the Sun which was later screened at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival where she won "Best New Narrative Director".
She worked with fellow Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat, as well as with Jonathan Demme, on projects on Haitian art and documentaries about Haïti.
Her documentary film titled Courage and Pain, about the victims of political torture in Haiti, was shown at the Walter Reade Theatre in Newcastle York in 1996.
[9] At the Tribeca Film Festival, Patricia Benoit herself also received the special award for best debut narrative director.
[2] Her short story "The Red Dress" was published in Edwidge Danticat's 2003 anthology The Butterfly's Way, subtitled Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States.