Edet Belzberg received her Master’s Degree in 1997 from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her documentary short “A Master Violinist”, about a Chinese political refugee, won the Columbia University School of Journalism’s John M. Patterson Enterprise Award in 1997. Since then she has been a guest lecturer each year at Columbia’s School of Journalism, speaking to both urban reporting and documentary filmmaking classes. Additionally, in 2001 she taught a documentary class to graduate students at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Belzberg’s first feature film, CHILDREN UNDERGROUND – a groundbreaking documentary that travels inside the harrowing world of abandoned street children in Romania – won the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, the Best Documentary Film Award from the International Documentary Association, and received a 2001 Academy Award nomination. CHILDREN UNDERGROUND had its US theatrical premiere at Film Forum in New York City in September 2001.

Belzberg is currently in post-production on “Gymnast”, a feature-length documentary that follows the top three female gymnasts in America training for and competing in the 2000 Olympic Games.