10 Facts About Alan Berliner

Alan Berliner was born on 1956 and is an American independent filmmaker.

Alan Berliner earned in 1977 a BA with highest honors, from Binghamton University, cinema, and in 1979 MFA from the University of Oklahoma, School of Art.

In July 2013, Alan Berliner was awarded the Freedom of Expression Award by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

Alan Berliner's films have won awards at many major international film festivals, and he has received retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, and many other museums and film festivals all over the world.

Alan Berliner is a recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Jerome Foundation Fellowships, and has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Alan Berliner has served on several non-profit foundation funding panels and various international film festival juries, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Jury.

Alan Berliner is on the Board of Directors of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival.

In 1987, during a two-month artist-in-residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, Alan Berliner premiered a sound performance work titled Microfilm and Others.

In 2002, Alan Berliner was an artist in residence at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where his interactive multi-media installation, The Language of Names opened in February 2002 and ran through October 2002.

Alan Berliner was commissioned to create a large-scale interactive sculpture based on Gathering Stones for Holocaust Museum Houston which was on exhibition from March through August 2002.