Oren Rudavsky is an American documentary filmmaker known for examining individuals and communities outside the cultural mainstream. Born around 1957, he graduated from Oberlin College in 1979 and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His films include A Life Apart Hasidism in America, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards, and Hiding and Seeking, which received an Independent Spirit Award nomination, both co-directed with Menachem Daum. Later theatrical releases include Colliding Dreams, co-directed with Joseph Dorman, and The Ruins of Lifta, co-directed with Daum, both released in 2016. Rudavsky also directed the narrative feature The Treatment, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Film Made in New York. His television work includes the Bloomberg series Risk Takers and the PBS documentary Time for School 3. He has produced media for the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and continues work on the NEH-funded American Masters film Joseph Pulitzer Voice of the People and a documentary for Witness Theater.