Elliot Greenebaum

Elliot Greenebaum
Born
United States
Alma materAmherst College
New York University
OccupationFilmmaker
Notable workAssisted Living
AwardsSundance Film Festival
Gen Art Film Festival
Slamdance Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
Savannah Film Festival

Elliot Greenebaum (born 1977) is an American film writer and director, best known for his award-winning debut movie, Assisted Living.[1] He also appeared in the role of Chip Wright in the 1990 Disney TV movie A Mom for Christmas.

Background

Elliot Greenebaum was born in Concord MA and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Amherst college in 1999 with a degree in philosophy and received his master's degree in film from NYU in 2005. .[1][2]

In 2003 he won Slamdance Grand Jury Prize best feature for his indie film Assisted Living which is the fictional story of an unlikely friendship in a nursing home. The film was shot in a working assisted living facility and used residents and staff as actors mixed in with the professional actors. Filmmaker Magazine chose Greenebaum as 50 Filmmakers to Watch and in 2005 he appeared on The Charlie Rose Show.[3]

Between 2014 and 2021 Elliot trained at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York and the Contemporary Freudian Society and became a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.

He produces a TikTok and YouTube channel called "Picturing It With Elliot" which features interviews with expert therapists and psychoanalysts.

Recognition

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ a b Grand, David (February 27, 2005). "Indecent Exposure?". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d "25 NEW FACES OF INDIE FILM 2003". Filmmaker. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Elliot Greenebaum, filmmaker". Kentucky Educational Television. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  4. ^ Turan, Kenneth (January 27, 2003). "A delicate balancing act in Park City". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d Egerton, Judith (February 6, 2005). "Louisvillian's movie about living opens Friday". Courier-Journal. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  6. ^ Egerton, Judith (February 11, 2005). "Movie Review; 'Assisted' is a mix of fiction, fact". Courier-Journal. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  7. ^ Edwards, Nicole (September 26, 2003). "At Woodstock film fest, winning is just small part". Poughkeepsie Journal. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2010.