 She received the Columbia University School of Journalism's John M. Patterson Enterprise Award in 1997 for her documentary short "A Master Violinist", about a Chinese political refugee.With assistance from the Soros Documentary Fund (now the Sundance Documentary Fund), Belzberg made her first feature film "Children Underground", a documentary about five homeless street children who lived in a subway system.The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2001), and received the Best Documentary Film Award from the International Documentary Association (2001).