Aviva Slesin

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Aviva Slesin (born before 1975 in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a Lithuanian - American documentary filmmaker and film producer . She received an Oscar in 1988 for her film The Ten-Year Lunch and is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Slesin is also a painter .

Career

Slesin's career began in 1975 as a freelance film editor with the documentary The Other Half of the Sky , which was produced by Shirley MacLaine and received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary . She then worked on Making Television Dance , a film about choreographer Twyla Tharp , followed by The Rutles , a 1977 satire about the Beatles by Eric Idle .

1980 Slesin first worked as an independent film producer and director with nine comedy short films for the original Saturday Night Live . In 1986 she was the director and editor of the film Directed by William Wyler , a biopic by Hollywood director William Wyler .

In 1987, Slesin won an Oscar for Best Documentary for her film The Ten-Year Lunch through the Algonquin Round Table . In 1990 she continued with Stood Up! a television episode. The following year she made Voices in Celebration , a documentary to mark the 50th birthday of the National Gallery of Art . In 1993 and 1994 she produced and directed Hot on the Trail for TBS television.

From 1995 to 1998, Slesin made a number of short films for The Rosie O'Donnell Show , Kids Talk , John Hockenberry's Edgewise , Real Sex and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly . In 2003 she released the film Secret Lives , which was nominated for an Emmy and won a Christopher Award .

Filmography

Awards

  • 1987: Lillian Gish Award for The Ten-Year Lunch , Los Angeles Women in Film Festival
  • 1988: Oscar for The Ten-Year Lunch in the category Best Documentary
  • 2002: Inspirational Film Award for Secret Lives , Hamptons International Film Festival
  • 2003: Christopher Award for Secret Lives

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Awards. Aviva Slesin. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 18, 2015 .
  2. ^ The Gallery: Aviva Slesin. apartmenttherapy.com, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Full Cast & Crew. The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975). Internet Movie Database, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  4. ^ Making Television Dance (1977). Because Films Inspire, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  5. ^ The Rutles Story. rutlemania.org, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Faculty Directory. Special Programs. New York University , accessed February 18, 2015 .
  7. ^ Directed by William Wyler. Internet Movie Database, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Stood Up! Internet Movie Database, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Hot on the Trail. Internet Movie Database, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Alex Witchel: Sharing the Secrets of the Hidden Children. The New York Times , October 17, 2002, accessed February 18, 2015 .
  11. ^ The 55th Annual Christopher Award Winners. (No longer available online.) The Christophers, archived from the original on March 4, 2015 ; accessed on February 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christophers.org
personal data
SURNAME Slesin, Aviva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian-American documentary filmmaker and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic