Oren Rudavsky
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Oren Rudavsky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in work on religion outside the mainstream. He graduated from Oberlin College
in 1979.
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
in 1979.
As director
- At the Crossroads: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today
- Dreams So Real, an animated film about three mentally ill men who created their own films, won first prize at the New England Film Festival in 1981.
- A Film About My Home, an autobiographical film
- Gloria: A Case Of Alleged Police Brutality.
- Saying Kaddish, which was nominated for an Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
in Directing - Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland took second prize at the Chicago International Film FestivalChicago International Film FestivalThe Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....
and a Blue Ribbon at the American Film FestivalAmerican Film FestivalAmerican Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Wrocław, Poland. First edition was held from 20 to 24 October 2010. The festival is organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty and co-funded by the Wroclaw Municipality and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.-...
and was included in the Sundance Film FestivalSundance Film FestivalThe Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
. - Theater of the Palms: The World of Puppet Master Lee Tien Lu
- Hiding and SeekingHiding and SeekingHiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust on their lives...
in collaboration with Menachem DaumMenachem DaumMenachem Daum is an Orthodox Jews and a documentary film-maker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survied the Holocaust. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide... - The TreatmentThe Treatment (2006 film)The Treatment is an American romantic comedy film released in 2006 starring Chris Eigeman and Famke Janssen and produced and directed by Oren Rudavsky.It is based on a novel with the same title by Daniel Menaker.-Plot:...
As director of photography
- The Amish: Not to be Modern
- The Last Klezmer
- Twitch and Shout, a film about Tourette’s syndrome
- A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
External links
- The Director Interviews: Oren Rudavsky, The Treatment at Filmmaker Magazine