Ellen Besen

Movies

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
Associate Producer
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
Director
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Lights: The Miracle of Chanukah
Animation
Lights reminds us to stand up for what we believe! This Chanukah story is told through animation & gripping narration by Judd Hirsch Also features the voices of Leonard Nimoy & Paul Michael Glaser.
Sea Dream
Director
An experimental animated film, adapted from a poem narrating a young child's dream.