Aviva Slesin Explained

Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker.

Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987.[1] She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow [2] and has had a retrospective of her work shown at the Sundance Film Festival[3] She is a member of the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Slesin is also a painter.[4]

Career

Documentaries

Slesin's career was launched in 1975 as a freelance film editor with,[5] produced by Shirley MacLaine and nominated that year for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Next, she edited Making Television Dance[6] about choreographer Twyla Tharp, followed in 1977 by The Rutles, a Beatles satire directed by Monty Python's Eric Idle.[7]

In 1980, Slesin made the transition to independent Producer/Director with nine comedy shorts for the original Saturday Night Live.[8] In 1986, she directed and edited Directed by William Wyler,[9] a biography of the late Hollywood director.

In 1987, Slesin won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. Then, 1990 marked a shift to dramatic films when Slesin directed and executive produced Stood Up! an ABC Afterschool Special.[10] Then Slesin produced and directed Voices in Celebration,[11] a documentary for the National Gallery's fiftieth anniversary. And in 1993 and 1994, she produced and directed the documentary, [12] for TBS.

During 1995 to 1998, Slesin produced and directed a series of short segments for The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Kids Talk, John Hockenberry's Edgewise, HBO’s Real Sex, and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.[13]

In 2003, Slesin produced, directed, and narrated,[14] which was nominated for two Emmys [15] and won a Christopher Award.[16]

Films

The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987)

Awards

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805754/awards
  2. http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php
  3. http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ASlesin.html
  4. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/the-gallery/the-gallery-aviva-slesin-006346
  5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073495/fullcredits#cast
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20110822144112/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/273153?view=credit
  7. http://www.rutlemania.org/78PK2.html
  8. http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ASlesin.html
  9. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090947/
  10. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381623/
  11. https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Celebration-VHS-Aviva-Slesin/dp/B00000F7QL
  12. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322618/
  13. http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ASlesin.html
  14. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/garden/at-home-with-aviva-slesin-sharing-the-secrets-of-the-hidden-children.html
  15. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805754/awards
  16. http://www.christophers.org/Page.aspx?pid=258