Edet Belzberg is a documentary filmmaker. She won a 2005 MacArthur
Fellowship.Belzberg received a B.A. in 1991 from the University of
Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. in 1997 from the School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University.She received the Columbia
University School of Journalism's John M. Patterson Enterprise Award
in 1997 for her documentary short A Master Violinist, about a Chinese
political refugee.With assistance from the Soros Documentary Fund (now
the Sundance Documentary Fund), Belzberg made her first feature film
Children Underground, a documentary about five homeless street
children who lived in a subway system. The film won the Special Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2001), and received the Best
Documentary Film Award from the International Documentary Association
(2001). Children Underground was also nominated for a 2001 Academy
Award and was one of the first recipients of the IFP Anthony Radziwill
Documentary Prize. Afterwards, Belzberg and her crew returned a year
later to find that the police who swept off the Victoriei has
dispersed the children who were featured in the film. Some of them
landed in state-funded homes, while others simply moved on to one of
the many abandoned construction sites that dot the city.
Fellowship.Belzberg received a B.A. in 1991 from the University of
Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. in 1997 from the School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University.She received the Columbia
University School of Journalism's John M. Patterson Enterprise Award
in 1997 for her documentary short A Master Violinist, about a Chinese
political refugee.With assistance from the Soros Documentary Fund (now
the Sundance Documentary Fund), Belzberg made her first feature film
Children Underground, a documentary about five homeless street
children who lived in a subway system. The film won the Special Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2001), and received the Best
Documentary Film Award from the International Documentary Association
(2001). Children Underground was also nominated for a 2001 Academy
Award and was one of the first recipients of the IFP Anthony Radziwill
Documentary Prize. Afterwards, Belzberg and her crew returned a year
later to find that the police who swept off the Victoriei has
dispersed the children who were featured in the film. Some of them
landed in state-funded homes, while others simply moved on to one of
the many abandoned construction sites that dot the city.
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