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.