Aron Gaudet

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Filmmaker Aron Gaudet made his feature directorial debut with the awardwinning documentary The Way We Get By a story about three senior citizens finding purpose in their life The film had its world premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival SXSW and won the Special Jury Award The Way We Get By has won 16 festival awards to date including the Audience Award at the Full Frame Film Festival the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Atlanta Little Rock Phoenix Naples and Newport International Film Festival The Way We Get By was released theatrically in July 2009 playing in over 60 cities across the US  The Way We Get By aired on the critically acclaimed PBS series POV in November 2009  and will have an encore broadcast on August 3 2010 Recently AARPs Movies For Grownups Awards honored The Way We Get By as Best Documentary of 2009 One of the three individuals that The Way We Get By focused on was Joan Gaudet Arons mother Aron was chosen as a 200708 WGBH Filmmaker in Residence In August 2006 Aron attended the Sundance Producers Conference at the Sundance Institute with film producer Gita Pullapilly Producer of The Way We Get By and Arons fiancee as of October 2009 Aron was the director for India A New Life  a short film he did for PBSs Frontline World It dealt with homeless children in India and those trying to help them  In 2008 Aron won three Telly Awards for this film Aron has won numerous awards in television including a total of 8 Telly Awards 2 regional Emmy nominations 2 Vermont Association of Broadcasters awards and a Michigan Association of Broadcasters award  He has also received a number of grants for his projects including from the Independent Television Service ITVS the Corporation for Public Broadcasting CPB POV the MacArthur Foundation Fulbright and Fledgling Fund Aron is a member of Writers Guild of America WGA International Documentary Association IDA and the Independent Feature Project IFP He is a graduate of the New England School of Communications Aron grew up in Maine and currently lives in Brooklyn New York Description above from the Wikipedia article Aron Gaudet licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia