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State University of New York at Purchase.
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Ilya Chaiken
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She is best known for her debut feature Margarita Happy Hour, 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. That same year she also screened her short Blackout for the Blackout Film Festival, for the first anniversary of the blackout that occurred in New York in 2003.
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. lieutenant was produced by such independent film notables as Mike South. Ryan, Larry Fessenden, and Roger East. Kass.
lieutenant received great reviews from the New York Times and Variety and was released on video by Kino Films on Veteran"s Day, 2008.
She is a graduate of State University of New York Purchase in filmmaking.
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