Awards and Honors

Pennebaker Career Achievement Award, Hamptons Doc Fest (2025)
Visionary Tribute: Lifetime Achievement Award, DOC NYC (2024)
Freedom of Expression Award, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2013)
Festival Juror, Sundance Film Festival - Documentary Competition (2007)
International Trailblazer Award, MIPDOC Conference, Cannes, France. (2006)
Cultural Achievement Award in Arts (Nat'l Foundation for Jewish Culture) (2002)
Artist In Residence, Walker Arts Center, MN (2001)
Master in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL (2001)
Storyteller Award, Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival (2001)
Righteous Persons Foundation (2000)
Martin E. Segal Award (Film Society of Lincoln Center) (1999)
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy (1999)
ITVS Funding Recipient (1999, 1995)
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Funding Recipient (1999)
Eastman Kodak Film "In the Works" Production Grant (1998)
Nominee: Film/Video, CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts (2000, 1999, 1997)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1993)
Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship (1993)
National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Grant (1998, 1993, 1989)
New York State Council on the Arts Grant (1999, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1985)
New York State Council on the Arts Film Distribution Grant (1992, 1986)
Center for New Television Consulting Award, Chicago, IL (1992)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (1999, 1991, 1985)
Jerome Foundation Individual Artists Grant (1990, 1983)
Hoso Bunka Foundation Production Grant, Tokyo, Japan (1990)
Filmsearch Grant, Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (1986)
New York State Creative Artists Public Service, CAPS (1982)
State University of N.Y. Foundation Award for Creative Work in Cinema (1977)
New York State Regents Scholarship (1973)

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Special Awards and Honors

De Beeld en Geluid IDFA Reframe Award for Best Creative Use of Archival Material (2019)

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FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED: Special Awards and Honors

Grand Prize for Feature Length Documentary, IDFA, Amsterdam (2012)
Gotham Award Nomination for Best Documentary Feature (2013)
Cinema Eye Honors Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Directing
Cinema Eye Honors Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Voted to Documentary Short-List for 2014 Oscar Nomination (2013)
Grand Prize, Translating Edward Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer’s, Punto de Vista (Spain) (2011)

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NOBODY'S BUSINESS: Special Awards and Honors

Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media (2002)
EMMY Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1998)
Chicago Silver Images Film Festival Visionary Award (2000)
National Media Owl Award, National Retirement Foundation (1998)
Director's Choice Award, Charlotte Film and Video Festival (1998)
First Prize for Innovation in Documentary, Festival dei Popoli (Italy) (1997)
Mayor's Prize for Best Documentary, Jerusalem International Film Festival (1997)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Florida Film Festival (1997)
Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network (1997)
Grand Prix, Visions Du Réel Int'l Documentary Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland(1997)
Golden Spire Award, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival (1997)
Churches of the Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
The Caligari Film Prize, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
International Film Critics Association Award, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
Southern Circuit Selection: Artist Touring Program (1997)
World Premiere, New York Film Festival (October 1996)

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INTIMATE STRANGER: Special Awards and Honors

Distinguished Achievement Award, International Documentary Association (1993)
Emmy Nomination, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1993)
Audience Award, 5th Most Popular Film, San Fran Int'l Film Festival (1992)
First Prize Blue Ribbon, American Film/Video Festival (1992)
Grand Prize, Non-Fiction, USA Festival, Dallas, TX, (1992)
Special Jury Award, Cinema du Reel Film Festival, Paris, France (1992)
Southern Circuit Selection: Artist Touring Program (1992)
Special Jury Award, Black Maria Film Festival (1991)
World Premiere, New York Film Festival, (October 1991)

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THE FAMILY ALBUM: Special Awards and Honors

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art (1987)
First Prize Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival (1987)
Golden Gate Award, "Experiments in Form," San Francisco Int'l Film Fest (1987)

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EVERYWHERE AT ONCE (1985)

Honorable Mention, Bucks County Film Festival (1986)
Grand Prize Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival (1985)
Television Broadcast: INDEPENDENT FOCUS, WNET/Thirteen (1990)

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NATURAL HISTORY (1983)

Honorable Mention, Bucks County Film Festival (1985)
Television Broadcast: WNYC, "The Garden of Eden" (1984)

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Editing Awards

Nobody’s Business, EMMY Award (1998)
Intimate Stranger, Film Editing EMMY Nomination (1993)
Broadway's Dreamers, The Legacy of the Group Theatre, American Masters (1989)
Broadway’s Dreamers, Golden Plaque Award, Chicago Int'l Film Festival (1989)
Slave Ships of the Sulu Sea, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Award (1986)
To Swim With the Whales, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Nomination (1985)
The Berlin Wall, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Nomination (1983)
FDR: A Biography, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Award (1982)

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Teaching Experience

Mentoring MFA Students, City College of New York (2022)
Mentoring MFA Students, The School of Visual Arts NYC (2014-2019)
Visual Thinking, New York University (2002 – 2007)
Experiments in Time, Light & Motion, New School for Social Research, NYC (1988 – 2002)
Editing for the Personal Filmmaker, Millennium Film Workshop, NYC (1993 – 2000)
Filmmaking for Artists, Hunter College, Art Dept., NYC (1987 – 1992)
Editing Workshop, Collective for Living Cinema, NYC (1980 – 1987)

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