Edet Belzberg

in 1997 from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

She received the Columbia University School of Journalism's John M. Patterson Enterprise Award in 1997 for her documentary short A Master Violinist, about a Chinese political refugee.

Children Underground was also nominated for a 2001 Academy Award and was one of the first recipients of the IFP Anthony Radziwill Documentary Prize.

She lives in New York City, where she has been a frequent guest lecturer on urban reporting and documentary filmmaking at the Columbia School of Journalism, and has also taught at NYU.

[3] Belzberg's 2008 documentary, The Recruiter (originally titled An American Soldier), premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.