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Alice Elliott began producing documentary films in her mid 40s after over twenty years of acting in feature films, commercials, and television. Elliott’s film The Collector of Bedford Street was nominated for an Academy Award and she is currently in production for several documentaries including, Two Weddings and a Future about the Christian and Hindu weddings of Carrie and Sujeet Desai, a couple with Down Syndrome. In this audio clip Alice discusses how she chooses her subjects, or more accurately, how her subjects choose her, with NPR’s John Kalish.

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