Aviva Slesin
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Aviva Slesin - Academy Award winner Aviva Slesin's new documentary film, SECRET LIVES: Hidden Children & their Rescuers During WW II, tells the complex and emotional story of a small number of Jewish children who were saved from the Nazis by non-Jews who, at great personal risk, took them into their homes as an extraordinary act of human decency. Whether hidden for months or years, the experience affected both the hidden children and their rescuers profoundly and forever and is the focus of a new documentary produced, directed and narrated by Aviva Slesin, herself a former hidden child.

Aviva Slesin was born in Lithuania, and was hidden as a baby by a Lithuanian family during World War II. Aviva Slesin has worked in film for 28 years, first as a film editor and then as a producer/director of award-winning documentaries. She won an Academy Award for The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, and has also produced and directed many other documentaries that have all aired on PBS, TBS, or HBO.

Ms. Aviva Slesin's career was launched in 1975 as a freelance film editor with A China Memoir: the Other Half of the Sky, produced by Shirley MacLaine and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Next she edited Making Television Dance, Making Television Dance about choreographer Twyla Tharp-followed in 1977 by The Ruttles, a Beatles satire directed by Monty Python's Eric Idle. In 1980 Ms. Aviva Slesin made the transition to independent producing and directing with nine comedy shorts for the original Saturday Night Live, one of which - "Singing Dogs" with Bill Murray - was featured at that year's New York Film Festival. She directed and edited Directed by William Wyler, a biography of the late Hollywood director which aired on PBS on American Masters and was shown at the London , Venice , Sundance and New York Film Festivals in 1986. In 1988 Ms. Aviva Slesin won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table.

Ms. Aviva Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow, has lectured at various universities and has had a retrospective of her work at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a member of the Directors Guild and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ms. Aviva Slesin is President of Aviva Films.

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