Producer
ALICE BREWTON HURWITZ
Alice Hurwitz recently retired as Coordinator of Academic Support Services at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. Educated at the University of Florida, the University of North Carolina, the University of Southern Mississippi and NYU, she pursued a career teaching art at public schools in North Carolina, Mississippi and Alaska. While studying for her Ph.D. at NYU, she directed an art gallery in the East Village. Influenced by film students, Alice recognized that documentary film was an appealing story-telling medium and began researching an old family story that became the basis of Lillie & Leander.