2003 press releases

U.S. Director Wins Award at Minsk Film Festival

American movie director Thom Eberhardt of Burbank, California, received the "Artistic Achievement" award in the children's and youth cinema competition at the 10th Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad-2003." Eberhardt wrote and directed the award-winning film, "I Was a Teenage Faust," a Showtime production, starring Robert Townsend, Morgan Fairchild, Stuart Margolin, and Josh Zuckerman.  During his visit to Minsk, Eberhardt spoke at high schools; the American Corner at the Pushkin Library; a roundtable session for Belarusian journalists, movie directors and producers; and a program for USG exchange program alumni. At some of the venues, another Eberhardt film, "Ratz" was shown; he earlier received an Emmy for this film and wrote a novel based on it called "Rat Boys." Eberhardt's other movies include "Night of the Comet" (writer and director), "Gross Anatomy" (director), "Captain Ron" (writer/director), "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" (writer), "All I Want for Christmas" (writer), and "Without a Clue" (director).