Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

Oren Rudavsky’s film Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire was an official selection of the Telluride International Film Festival and has been awarded the Audience Award at three film festivals, the Yad Vashem Award at DocAviv, and the Torchbearer Prize at the Miami Jewish Film Festival. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed, and co-wrote the NEH-funded PBS American Masters documentary: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, which was nominated for a Critics Choice Award. His NEH-funded film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards and broadcast on PBS, and his ITVS-funded film Hiding and Seeking was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and was chosen for the PBS POV series. Both were co-directed with Menachem Daum. Rudavsky was producer/writer of the series Time for School, a twelve-year longitudinal exploration of the education of seven children in the developing world for the PBS series Wide Angle. Oren co-wrote and directed The Treatment, his fiction feature, starring Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm and Famke Janssen, which was awarded Best Film Made in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival. Rudavsky recently completed the NEH-funded film Everything Seemed Possible with director Ramón Rivera Moret, about an era of profound cultural and social change in Puerto Rico in the 1950s-1960s. The film was an official selection of the Rotterdam International Film Festival and recently screened at the Barbican Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.