Contact Information
Email: info@welcomechange.org
107 Bedford Street
Upper One
New York, NY 10014
tel (212) 924-7151
fax (212) 206-8326
Our Mission
To create art that helps us live together with humor, tolerance, and compassion.
Our Story
Welcome Change has been making independent documentary films since 1991 when Alice Elliott completed Diamonds in the Rough, a documentary about the all Dominican baseball team at George Washington High School in upper Manhattan. It won a New York State Council on the Arts Distribution Grant that allowed it to be subtitled in Spanish. It appeared at the Denver International Film Festival and won a Chris Award, a National Educational Media Apple Award, and first place as Best Documentary at the South Beach Film Festival.
In 2001 Alice Elliott completed The Collector of Bedford Street that screened on HBO/Cinemax and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002. It has been to more than 70 film festivals and won 19 awards. It is currently in educational distribution through New Day Films.
Currently, Welcome Change has several documentaries in production, including Diana & Kathy: Body & Soul, about two women living independently with disabilites and Becoming Kelly, about a transgender relationship.