Oren Rudavsky

New York based director Oren Rudavsky recently completed his first fiction feature The Treatment, starring Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm and Famke Janssen. The film premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded Best Film, Made in New York. Since that opening The Treatment has gone on to play at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Athens Intl. Film Festival, the Australian Intl. Film Festival, the Hamptons Intl. Film Festival, Mill Valley, Austin, Maui, Williamstown, Newport and Munich. The Treatment recently was awarded First Prize, from the Gene Siskel Film Center for the Christopher Wetzel Independent Narrative Comedy Award. The Treatment has been acquired by New Yorker Films for a spring platform release and opens at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and the Angelika Film Center in New York on May 4th, 2007, in Boston at the Kendall on May 25th, Philadelphia at the Ritz on June 1st and LA at the Sunset and the Pasadena Palace on June 15th.Oren's feature documentary Hiding and Seeking was nominated as best documentary in 2004 for an Independent Spirit Award, enjoyed a wide theatrical release and was selected for broadcast in 2005 on the acclaimed PBS series POV. It was also selected from hundreds of entries to represent the United States at the 2006 Input Conference in Taiwan. It won the Grand Prize at the Warsaw International Jewish Film Festival and was Best Film at the North American Interfaith film festival in 2004.In 1999, Rudavsky produced And Baby Makes Two. The program, funded by ITVS, was selected to be part of the PBS series Independent Lens, and was later broadcast on the Oxygen Network. .The National Endowment for the Humanities funded his 1997 film, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. The film enjoyed a highly successful theatrical release, was on the short list for the Academy Awards best documentary and received an Emmy nomination for its national PBS release in 1998.The subjects of Oren's films have ranged from mental illness to race relations and have featured the Amish, Jews in Eastern Europe, a Latino immigrant theater group in New York, Nuns, and Hasidim. Selected credits include Spark Among the Ashes, a Sundance Film Festival Selection; At the Crossroads, Gloria: A Case of Alleged Police Brutality, Fire'scapes, A Film About My Home and Dreams So Real. His films have appeared on WNET, PBS, Discovery, and ABC television and been shown at Sundance, Berlin, AFI, San Francisco, Jerusalem, Sydney, London, and other film festivals. As director of photography Rudavsky's credits include the the aforementioned films: Hiding and Seeking, A Life Apart and And Baby Makes Two as well as the acclaimed PBS POV documentary Twitch and Shout, The Last Klezmer, an award winner at the Berlin International Film Festival; The Amish: Not to be Modern, Voices From the Attic, and Un Beso A Esta Tierra. Show less «