Alison Klayman
Alison Klayman is an American filmmaker and journalist best known for her award-winning 2012 documentary .Life and career
Klayman grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Brown University in 2006 with a bachelor of arts degree in history. After her studies she went on a five-month trip to China with a college classmate and wound up staying to learn Chinese and work. She has contributed to PBS Frontline, National Public Radio and The New York Times.
After meeting artist Ai Weiwei while filming his exhibit for a local gallery, she started shooting footage for a longer documentary in December 2008.
debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize and a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.
Klayman is Jewish.Filmography
- Take Your Pills
- 11/8/16
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- The 100 Years Show
- The Brink
Awards and honors
- Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award
- DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
- Filmmaker Magazine "25 New Faces of Independent Film"
- New York Times international list of 20 Directors to Watch
- Sundance Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance
