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On TV:
2010 Grants
CRIME AFTER CRIME Broadcast premiere on OWN network: November 3, 2011; dir: Yoav Potash
2009 Grants
BAD BLOOD Aired on PBS, June 2011; dir: Marylin Ness
WAR DON DON Aired on HBO2, September 2010; dir: Rebecca Richman Cohen
WOMAN REBEL premiered on HBO in August 2011; dir: Kiran Deol
2006 Grants
RUN GRANNY RUN Aired on HBO in 2007; dir: Marlo Poras
Festival Circuit:
2011 Grants
FUTURE WEATHER Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012
SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE Premiered at South by Southwest in 2012
ZERGÜT Premiered at AFI Festival November 8, 2011 in Shorts Program One;
Co-Directors, Natasha Subramaniam and Alison Lapidus
2010 Grants
WHAKATIKI Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012
Festival Winners:
2010 Grants
CIRCUMSTANCE Winner, Sundance US Dramatic Competition Audience Award
CRIME AFTER CRIME Winner of the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award for Investigative Documentary Feature; awarded the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award in 2011; awarded the Hillman Prize in Broadcast Journalism in 2012; and winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Award for US Television Journalism.
MY SO-CALLED ENEMY Winner, Newport Beach Film Festival 2011: Jury Award, Best Feature Documentary Film; MacGillivray Freeman Films Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking (Feature); Starz Denver Film Festival: Special Jury Prize in Filmmaking; 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival: Brizzolara Family Conflict & Resolution Film Award
HABIBI Winner best film in the Muhr Arab feature competition and the Fiprisci critics prize for Arab feature at the Dubai Festival 2011
2009 Grants
GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS Winner, 2010 Woodstock Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature; 2010 Denver Starz Film Festival: People's Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature; 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Finalist - Best in Fest
THE HOUSE OF SPIRIT Winner, 2009 Betty Thomas Filmmaking Award
TOREY'S DISTRACTION Winner, Audience Award at both the New Orleans and Austin Film Festivals
WAR DON DON Special Jury Award, South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW); Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Editing, Independent Film Festival Boston; Cinereach Award, Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York; First Merit Prize, Taiwan International Documentary Festival; Best Film Award from the Investigative Report Jury, Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme (Paris)
2006 Grants
A WALK IN THE SEA: DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE WARHOL FACTORY 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, NY Loves Docs; 2007 Teddy Award at Berlinale dir: Esther Robinson
AMERICAN BLACKOUT 2006 Sundance Special Jury Prize; dir: Anastasia King
WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA For Director Alexis Krasilovsky, the 2010 Gate of Freedom Award from the 9th Gdansk Documentary Film Festival; Best of Fest Award - Documentary Film WIN (Women's Image Network) Awards 2009 (Hollywood); Best Women in Cinema Award San Francisco Women's Film Festival 2008; Best Documentary Film
Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto); Best in Category 2008 BEA (Broadcast Education Association) Festival of Media Arts: Documentary Competition: Long-Form Documentary (Las Vegas); Best Documentary Feature 2007 Spirit of Moondance Award (Hollywood); Insight Award for Excellence: Documentary - Editing
Award Nominations
2010 Grants
CIRCUMSTANCE
Gotham Audience Award Nominee; Independent Spirit Award Nominee
Emmy Winners:
BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY 2004, dir: Tracy Droz Tragos
ANIMATED WOMEN 1994, dir: Patty Wineapple and Sybil Delgaudio
GIRLS LIKE US 1993, dir: Jane Wagner and Tina diFeliciantonio
MEN WHO MOLEST, CHILDREN WHO SURVIVE 1985, prod: Rachel Lyons
Academy Award Nominees:
WOMAN REBEL was short-listed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 2009 Oscar® documentary short subject
THE COLLECTOR OF BEDFORD STREET 2002, dir: Alice Elliott
SPEAKING IN STRINGS 1999, dir: Paola di Florio
THE FRAGILE PROMISE OF CHOICE 1995, dir: Beth Seltzer and Dorothy Fadiman
REGRET TO INFORM 1993, dir: Barbara Sonneborn
BEYOND IMAGINING (1991, dir: Wendy Weinberg)
LAS MADRES DE LA PLAZA DE MAYO 1986, dir: Lourdes Portillo and Susan Muňoz
Academy Award Winners:
FREEHELD 2007, dir: Cynthia Wade
MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION 1994; dir: Frieda Lee Mock
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2006 Film finishing fund recipient Esther Robinson was named as one of the 25 to Watch in 2006 by Independent Film. Her Film Finishing Fund documentary, A Walk in the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, was screened at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival and the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. It won the Teddy Award for best LGBT-themed documentary at Berlinale 2007, as well as the NY Loves Docs Award at Tribeca. Download HERE Esther's article on the Los Angeles Times.
