Films by Filmmaker

Alice Elliott

The Collector of Bedford Street, nominated for an Academy Award in the short documentary category, won the Best Documentary, Horizon Award, and Audience Award at its world premier at the Aspen Shortsfest. Since then it has been to more than 90 festivals and has won 20 awards including the Audience Award and the Florida Forever Filmmaker Award at the Florida Film Festival, the Family Award at the USA Film Festival, the jury award for best documentary at the Big Bear Lake Film Festival, the overall award at the Ojai Film Festival, Best Documentary and a special citation at the Silver Street Film Festival, and a Henry Hampton Award from the National Council on Foundations. ALICE ELLIOTT also produced the award-winning documentary Diamonds in the Rough, about the inner city baseball team of George Washington High School in Washington Heights, Manhattan. It was screened at the Denver International Film Festival, Taos Talking Pictures, San Antonio, Wine Country and Columbus Film Festivals. It won First Place Documentary at the South Beach Film Festival, a National Educational Media Network Award, and a Chris Award She co-produced Grist for the Mill that aired on Cinemax, June 1999. As a writer, she wrote for the Nickelodeon series, Are You Afraid of the Dark? and her three plays for young audiences have been published and produced in New York City and around the country. She teaches for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the NYU School of Continuing andProfessional Studies. She has produced radio commercials, CD- Roms, and played a role for 10 years on ABC's Loving. As an actress she appeared in two feature films, and over 100 TV commercials before going behind the cameras. She is a former board member of New York Women in Film and Television. She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Illinois Humanities Council, The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Hilton Foundation,the ELA Foundation, and individual donors for her mission to lead social change by revealing the big stories hidden in the human heart. To view a clip go to: http://www.thereelpages.com/cobtrailer/Trailer3.mov