Oren Rudavsky
American filmmaker
Oren Rudavsky (born c. 1957) is an American documentary filmmaker known for exploring individuals and communities outside the mainstream. A 1979 graduate of Oberlin College, he is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently producing the NEH-funded American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People and working on a film for Witness Theater, a program that brings together high school students and Holocaust survivors, culminating in a dramatization of the survivors’ lives. His films Colliding Dreams, co-directed with Joseph Dorman, and The Ruins of Lifta, co-directed with Menachem Daum, were both released theatrically in 2016.
Rudavsky’s earlier work includes A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards, and Hiding and Seeking, which received an Independent Spirit Award nomination; both films were co-directed with Menachem Daum. He also produced media for the permanent installations at the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, which opened in 2013. His projects for television include the 2011 Bloomberg series Risk Takers and the 2009 two-part PBS documentary Time for School 3, a twelve-year longitudinal study of children’s education in the developing world, for which he served as Producer/Writer. In 2006, he completed his first narrative feature, The Treatment, starring Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm, and Famke Janssen. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Film, Made in New York award.
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