Ilya Chaiken

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Ilya Chaiken (born February 10, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her debut feature , a film about motherhood, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and went on to the Los Angeles Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.

Chaiken garnered accolades as a college student for her short films The Actress and Match Flick. She was awarded a Statue Award for artistic excellence in film from the Princess Grace Foundation in 1994. She has worked as an editor on various shorts, music videos, as well as her own films. In 2004, her comedic short The 100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds granted her a return to Sundance.[1] That same year she also screened her short Blackout for the , for the first anniversary of the blackout that occurred in New York in 2003.[2]

Chaiken's second feature Liberty Kid, which deals with post-9/11 life for inner-city youth in Brooklyn, premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival. It won the Best Feature Award at the New York International Latino Film Festival and was picked up for broadcasting by HBO. It was produced by such independent film notables as Mike S. Ryan, Larry Fessenden, and . It received great reviews from the New York Times and Variety and was released on video by on Veteran's Day, 2008.

She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase in filmmaking.[3]

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2009-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Ryzik, Melena Z. (13 August 2004). "A Year After the Big Blackout, a Film Festival Flickers to Life". The New York Times.
  3. ^ http://www.pgfusa.com/

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