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Alison Chernick
Biography
Alison Chernick is a New York based writer/director and filmmaker. Chernick's first documentary was on contemporary artist Jeff Koons titled, The Jeff Koons Show. Her second feature-length documentary on artist Matthew Barney, titled Matthew Barney No Restraint, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and played theatrically. Diagram of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein was commissioned by the Tate Modern for the exhibition Lichtenstein: A Retrospective. The Artist is Absent, a short film on designer/artist Martin Margiela, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her documentary Itzhak on violinist Itzhak Perlman received worldwide theatrical distribution, was broadcast on PBS and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film in 2019.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for The Humanities award, a New York Women in Film and Television award, a Loreen Arbus grant and a Woman of Her Word grant. Chernick's documentaries have been screened at various museums around the world, including the five Guggenheims, the Smithsonian, SFMOMA, and the Walker. She has written for the Sundance Channel, Showtime, SyFy, MTV, VH1, The History Channel, and National Geographic. Her commissioned short films often center around themes of art, fashion, music, gastronomy, and healthcare. She is represented by RSA Films.