First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
Edet Belzberg
With assistance from the Soros Documentary Fund (now the Sundance Documentary Fund), Belzberg made her first feature film "Children Underground", a documentary about five homeless street children who lived in a subway system. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2001), and received the Best Documentary Film Award from the International Documentary Association (2001). "Children Underground" was also nominated for a 2001 Academy Award and was one of the first recipients of the IFP Anthony Radziwill Documentary Prize.
Her 2005 documentary "Gymnast" studied three American female gymnasts preparing for the Olympic Games.