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Biography

ALICE ELLIOTT co produced and directed the Academy Award nominated short
documentary, The Collector of Bedford Street which screened on Cinemax.
Currently she is directing and co-producing Body and Soul: Diana and Kathy
for the Independent Television Service and public television about two
disability rights activists in Illinois. She co-produced Grist for the Mill
that aired on Cinemax, June 1999, and the award winning documentary Diamonds
in the Rough about the inner city baseball team at George Washington High
School in Washington Heights. In addition, she is directing another short
documentary 2 Weddings and a Future about a Down Syndrome couple who got
married.

She has received a Jerome Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowship, and funding from the New York State Council for the Arts,
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Eastman Foundation, Women in Film and Television
Foundation, Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Illinois
Humanities Council.

As a writer, she wrote for the Nickelodeon series, Are You Afraid of the
Dark? She teaches for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is a on the
Steering Committee for New Day Films. New Day is the oldest filmmaker owned
and operated educational distribution company in the world. It serves
educational institutions by providing independently produced films that
challenge and educated. She served on the Board as Secretary for New York
Women in Film and Television, and attended the Women in Film and Television
International Summit in London.