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AWARDS, FESTIVALS, HONORS:

2002 First Glimpse Film Festival. LA
  2002   Ojai International Film Festival
  2002   Echoing Green Fellowship/IN ARMS REACH-two year partial funding
  2002   MediaRights.org/Human Rights Watch Film Festival
  2002   Silver Images Film Festival
  2000   LA Independent Documentary Festival
  2000   Cine Golden Eagle Award
  2000   Makor, NY
  2000   Columbus Jewish Center, Ohio
  2000   Portland Jewish Film Festival
  2000   Tucson Jewish Film Festival
  2000   Center of Photography, Consortium of Universities, Spielembergo, Italy
  2000   Washington DC Jewish Film Festival
  2000   Mill Valley Film Festival
  2000   Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Walter Rosenblum, In Search Of Pitt Street
  1999 Women in Film screenings, Los Angeles and New York
  1999
President's Award, Columbus International Film Festival, Walter Rosenblum, In Search Of Pitt Street
  1999 NY Avignon Film Festival, Walter Rosenblum, In Search of Pitt Street
  1999 Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain, Walter Rosenblum, In Search of Pitt Street
  1999   D-Day Museum, University of New Orleans
  1995   Grand Prix du Documentaire, Catholic Jury
Prize, Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island, Film Festival, Amiens France
  1995 Berlin Film Festival - Panorama - Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island; Beat Down: The Case of Raymond Alvarez.
  1995
EMMY Award for Individual Achievement -The Untold West: The Black West
  1994
CableAce nomination, Vision Award nomination. - The Untold West: The Black West
  1993 Washington, DC Women in Film Yearly Award - Individual Achievement
  1992 Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
Silver Medal, Chicago International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, Vallodolid Film Festival, Spain
International Documentary Association Award
The Holocaust Humanitarian Award
The LINKS Sojourner Truth Award for Visual Arts
City Council of New York for "Outstanding Documentary Contributions"
CICAE Award, Avignon Film Festival, France
Leningrad Film Festival
Vallodolid, Spain Film Festival: "Special Jury Prize"
Upsala Film Festival, Sweden
  1990 Chicago International Film Festival: "Certificate of Merit"
Montreal Festival des Femmes
Denver Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival
Cork, Ireland Film Festival
Leipzig, Germany Film Festival: "Special Mention"
Berlin Film Festival
Munich Documentary Film Festival: "Best in Festival" Award
  1988
"Human Rights Watch" Film Festival/Nov. 25-Dec. 9, 1988. Joseph Papp's Public Theatre
Los Angeles Women in Film/CFI Labs Completion Award
  1987
New York Council for the Humanities: "Films in the Humanities" Award
  1986 Reel Women: A Festival of Beginnings, Director/Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. Film Festival
Margaret Mead Film Festival
  1985
Edinburgh Film Festival
Jerusalem Film Festival
International Documentary Association Award
Emmy Nomination: Sound
W.I.C.I. Clarion Award
Berlin Film Festival
Columbus Film Festival, 1st Prize, Chris Statuette
U.S. Film Festival/Sundance, Special Jury Prize
Cine Golden Eagle
Montreal Film Festival, Best Biography of an Artist
Baltimore Film Festival, 1st Prize
Medal of the City of Arles, France, Rencontres de la Photographie
French/American Film Workshop, Avignon, France
London Film Festival
Melbourne Film Festival, Australi.
Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1st Prize
American Film Festival, Red Ribbon
New York Film Festival: World Premiere
  1984 Telluride Film Festival.
Festival des Femmes, Paris, France

GRANTS

1988
Los Angeles Women in Film/CFI Labs Completion Grant for Female High Security Unit
  1987   National Endowment for the Humanities Development Grant: Let Truth Be The Prejudice
New York Council Films in the Humanities Program
  1984   WNET/Non-Fiction Television Completion Grant.
New York Council for the Humanities Production Grant
Polaroid Foundation Production Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities Production Grant
  1980   Joint Foundation Support Women Director's Fund Grant
  1978   Mellon Foundation Grant
  1977   Nomination for the Rosenthal Foundation Award, National Academy of Arts and Letters
Prize in Painting, Berkshire Museum Exhibition
C.A.P.S. Grant, New York State Council for the Arts
  1976   Ford Foundation Faculty Development Grant
  1974   Penn. State University Faculty Development Grant
  1970   Yale University, Scholarship, Summer School of Art
  1967   Scholastic Magazine Award, Full Tuition College Scholarship