12/01/2008
Edet speaks to 2008 Reach Fellows at their first Workshop
We are thrilled to announce that RFF Advisor, Edet Belzberg (The Recruiter, Children Underground) has been awarded a discretionary Sundance Documentary Fund grant for her film Watchers of the Sky (working title). The film explores the world’s response to genocide through the eyes of four exceptional visionaries who traverse time and continents. Congratulations Edet!
RFF Advisor and celebrated cinematographer, Ellen Kuras (Swoon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow) made her directorial debut with her film The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) which is currently showing at IFC. The film has received rave reviews from the likes of A.O. Scott, Filmmaker Magazine and Time Out NY. To see a complete list and read articles, click here .
Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is an astonishing tale of perseverance – one family’s struggle to survive its journey from war-torn Laos to the streets of New York. Eloquent yet devastating, the documentary reveals the hidden, human face of war’s “collateral damage.”