Alice Elliott (v)

Alice Elliott (v)

(She/Her)
Owner
Welcome Change Productions

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award-nominated and NY Emmy Award Winning documentary filmmaker, Guggenheim Fellow award recipient, and a media diversity and accessibility consultant. Learn more about her work and sign up for her newsletter at welcomechange.org.

Full Bio
Alice Elliott is an Academy Award-nominated documentary director of The Collector of Bedford Street. Her second film in a trilogy with Collector is the PBS Award-winning documentary Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy. She’s in production on the third film, Carrie On, about Carrie Bergeron, a motivational speaker and self-advocate with Down syndrome.

Miracle on 42nd Street, a documentary Elliott directed about affordable housing for artists, made its world premiere at the DOC NYC Festival in 2017. The film received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2020 NY Emmy Award.

She completed Accommodation, three short films about accessibility on college campuses, and directed and wrote a web series of short videos for self-advocates, ACTIVATE HERE! Currently, she is co-director of Emmy Award winner Jason Dasilva’s feature debut, The Dismantled.

A twenty-year member of the cooperative, filmmaker-owned distribution company New Day Films, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and owner of Welcome Change Prod

Professional Credits
Director: Miracle on 42nd Street, (NY Emmy Nominee), The Collector of Bedford Street (HBO), Body & Soul:Diana & Kathy PBS(docs), ACTIVATE HERE (web series). TOWN BAND (short doc). Accommodation (3 short films). Writ: The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter (Are You Afraid of the Dark Series, Nickelodeon/Kandel Enterprises)
Industry Awards
2024 Telly Awards (Silver & Bronze - Accessibility for Social Video Category), 2020 NY Emmy Nomination, 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, Academy Award Nomination, Audience Award, Horizon Award Aspen Short Film Festival,USA Festival Family Award. Florida Film Festival Audience Award

favorite short film and Florida Forever Filmmaker Award, National Council on Foundations-Henry Hampton Award Heartland Festival Crystal Heart Award, Best Doc Silver Street Film and Video Festival, Big Bear Lake Jury Prize Best Doc, Ojai Film Festival the Theme Award.
Writer's Group works
Hat Trick
Screenplay (Comedy, Romance)
Log Line:
(written with Cliff Bryant) When a handsome, young tennis pro is mistaken for gay, he decides to play along so he can tryst with married women without arousing the suspicions of their husbands.
Synopsis:
During a summer in Martha's Vineyard, Jack pretends to be gay to keep aggressive, jealous husbands off the track of his affairs with their wives. Unexpectedly, he meets the love of his life, the beautiful, but engaged, Amanda. Jack can't woo her or tell her he's really straight because she respects his honesty and thinks he's perfect for her brother. When needy married women, jealous husbands, an amorous boyfriend, an angry roommate, and a new found love are more than he can handle, Jack learns that the truth just might get you further than a lie.
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