{"id":7139,"title":"Alan Berliner","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/alan-berliner","version":"ae0b706d627ad753d4657d5965b37731ca965ff2e8ea54fdc2e78bc6b2dba429","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:18+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Alan","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Berliner","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Alan Berliner.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/alan-berliner.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7139.ris"},"links":[{"label":"https://alanberliner.com/","url":"https://alanberliner.com/","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":2072},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":640}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Alan Berliner\u0027s experimental documentary films, Wide Awake (2006), The Sweetest Sound (2001), Nobody\u0027s Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world, and received awards, prizes, and retrospectives at many major international film festivals. The San Francisco International Film Festival called Berliner, \u0022America\u0027s foremost cinematic essayist.\u0022 The Florida Film Festival called him \u0022the modern master of personal documentary filmmaking.\u0022 Over the years, Berliner\u0027s films have become part of the core curriculum for documentary filmmaking and film history classes at universities worldwide, and are in the permanent collections of many film societies, festivals, libraries, colleges and museums. Berliner is a recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Jerome Foundation Fellowships, and has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He\u0027s won three Emmy Awards and received six Emmy nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Berliner has also served on several non-profit foundation funding panels and various international film festival juries -- including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Jury -- is on the Board of Directors of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Martha\u0027s Vineyard Film Festival. In 2006, the International Documentary Association honored Berliner with an \u0022International Trailblazer Award for creativity, innovation, originality, and breakthrough in the field of documentary cinema.\u0022 Berliner had previously been a recipient of a \u0022Distinguished Achievement Award\u0022 from the IDA in 1993. In 2002, the National Foundation For Jewish Culture presented him with a \u0022Cultural Achievement Award in the Arts,\u0022 and he also received a \u0022Storyteller Award\u0022 from Taos Talking Picture Film Festival in 2001. His films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. https://alanberliner.com/","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":2072,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}