Alice Elliott

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award nominated director, a writer, producer, university level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and a member of New Day Films, an educational distribution cooperative. Her short documentary, The Collector of Bedford Street, was nominated for an Academy Award and was the recipient of the Jewish Image Award, the TASH Image Award and more than twelve additional festival honors. The film also received the Henry Hampton Award given by the Council on Foundations. The Collector of Bedford Street aired on HBO/Cinemax and has screened at over 75 film festivals around the world. Alice Elliott was the director, co-producer, and the principal verite photographer on her latest film, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, which aired on PBS for National Disability Awareness Month October 2009. The film has screened at over 25 film festivals and won eleven festival awards including Best of Festival at the 2008 Superfest, Best Documentary at Talking Pictures, and the Audience Award from 'The Way We Live' Film Festival in Munich, Germany. Alice has been producing documentaries for almost twenty years. Her first film, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Diamonds in the Rough won a Chris Award, a NEMN Apple Award and First Place in the Documentary Category at the South Beach Film Festival. Alice co-produced Grist for the Mill, a personal video diary about the effects of divorce on adult children. Grist for the Mill aired on HBO/Cinemax. Alice is currently teaching directing The Miracle on 42nd Street, a feature length documentary about the thirty year old innovative housing project called Manhattan Plaza. The towers on 42nd Street provide subsidized housing for performing artists. Alice is a full time faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and also runs the boutique documentary film company, Welcome Change Productions, in New York City. She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television and has served as secretary and Board Member. Alice is also a member of The Arc of the United States, Sullivan County and Illinois.