Alice Elliott
Associate Arts Professor
Alice Elliott, Associate Arts Professor and Area Head of Documentary Studies
Associate Arts Professor, Alice Elliott is an Academy Award nominated documentary director of The Collector of Bedford Street. Her second film in a trilogy with Collector is the PBS Award winning documentary, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy. She’s in production on the third film, Carrie On, about Carrie Bergeron, a motivational speaker and self-advocate with Down syndrome.
Miracle on 42nd Street, a documentary Elliott directed about affordable housing for artists, made its world premiere at the DOC NYC Festival in 2017. The film received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2020 NY Emmy Award.
She completed Accommodation, three short films about accessibility on college campuses, and directed and wrote a web series of short videos for self-advocates, ACTIVATE HERE! Currently she is co-director on Emmy Award winner Jason Dasilva’s feature debut, The Dismantled.
A twenty-year member of the cooperative, filmmaker owned distribution company New Day Films, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and owner of Welcome Change Productions, she enjoys bringing storytelling and social justice together to make change in her films, business and teaching.
Through her monthly newsletter and social media presence, she shares quality D/deaf and disability media.
She is th Area Head of Documentary Studies at New York University and is currently developing an app on the history of disability rights.
COURSES:
Sight and Sound Documentary
Docs: Inside and Out (Intermediate)
Advance Documentary Workshop (Adavance and Intermediate)
EDUCATION:
BFA Goodman School of Dram