Alice Elliott, Larry's neighbor and the producer/director of The Collector of Bedford Street, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. Each year the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards approximately 200 Fellowships out of 3,500-4,000 applications. The purpose of the Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.
The Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts, and Alice certainly fits that description. She is an Academy Award-nominated director, a writer, producer, university-level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and a member of New Day Films, a forty-year-old educational film distribution cooperative. Visit the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's website to read more about Alice and the Guggenheim Fellowship.