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Alan Berliner

Date
2001

Alan Berliner releases "The Sweetest Sound", with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arte France, ITVS, the Righteous Persons Foundation, British Broadcasting Corporation; TV 1, Finland; New York Foundation for the Arts.

The film has been exhibited on POV; Visions du Reel, Switzerland; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; SXSW Film Festival; BBC2, London; Austin, Texas; Taos Talking Picture Festival; Berlin Film Festival. Exhibitions at "Eye and Though: Jewish Autobiography in Film and Video" at NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.

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Filmmaker Alan Berliner released the film The Sweetest Sound with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arte France, ITVS, the Righteous Persons Foundation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, TV 1 Finland and the New York Foundation for the Arts. The film was exhibited on POV and BBC2 and screened at Visions du Reel (Switzerland), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington), SXSW Film Festival (Austin, Texas), Taos Talking Picture Festival and the Berlin Film Festival; exhibitions included Eye and Though: Jewish Autobiography in Film and Video at the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.

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