#jewish film festival

[stfin]

Just got an email about a Jewish Film Festival in Philly, and they're showing The Emperor's New Groove?

[shelley-sackett]

North Shore JCC’s annual film fest to bring panorama of Jewish life

The JCCNS’s 11th annual film festival runs from May 2-23. By Shelley A. Sackett MARBLEHEAD – Film fans of the North Shore and neighboring communities will be brought together once again by the International Jewish Film Festival and its carefully curated selection from around the world. Uniquely inspired by Jewish history, culture, and values, all films will be screened at Cinema…

[spokanefavs]

Tracy Simmons, Matthew Kincanon, and Mitch and Kathy Finley, will participate in a panel discussion on Feb. 1 as part of the 20th Annual Spokane Jewish Film Festival.

Released in 2022, “Stay With Us�� portrays the life of a Jewish man who expeditiously returns to France after being well-established in the United States to convert to Catholicism.

See more about the panel

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Source

[eretzyisrael]

Report: Israeli Artists Censored by Hollywood

The Hollywood Reporter revisited that topic, expanding the focus to show how Israeli artists struggle to get their visions to the screen.

Israeli content creators are increasingly becoming pariahs in the global marketplace.

According to the site, some Jewish artists can’t find funding post Oct. 7. That’s bad enough, but it gets worse.

Israelis have become persona non-grata, particularly on the film festival front — even when their work and social media profiles are apolitical….Israeli filmmakers say their projects are being deliberately excluded on the festival circuit by gatekeepers, some of whom have signaled support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on social media.

We also hear from “veteran Hollywood dealmaker Craig Emanuel” who said festival programmers (including those from Sundance and the Toronto International Film Festival) fear “pushback and demonstrations” from anti-Israel activists.

That convinced them to avoid Israeli films and filmmakers regardless of the content. Pro-Palestinian protesters helped make this a reality. The Heckler’s Veto is alive and well within the creative community.

Shameful. Cowardly.

[richardarmitagefanpage]

The Boy in the Woods was/will be screened at several film festivals in the USA in 2024.

The Charlotte Jewish Film Festival on January 30 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Palm Springs Jewish Film Festival on March 12 in Palm Springs, California.

Gold Coast International Film Festival's Spotlight on Jewish Film on March 13 in Great Neck, New York.

Sacramento Jewish Film Festival on March 11-24 Sacramento, California. (Via Streaming)

[mindholes]

at my mom’s apartment today and looking through her old photo albums - here’s my grandpa (on my mom’s side) with Alla Pugacheva at a press conference (he was on Moscow radio and the media circuit) and a nice shot of him in Odessa, his original home

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern attends the gala opening night of the uk jewish film festival (november 2010) | 📸: danny martindale

[livesinyesterday]

David Strathairn Appreciation: 

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival premiere of Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

[webercreative]

2024 Omaha Film Festival fills up the big screen

Annual festival at Aksarben, OFF Academy setting industry stage in Heartland Finding ways to escape has always meant movies and entertainment for our family, so much so that several generations are working professionals in the industry. So it’s normal I would on my respite days from caregiving and healing seek out the artists, and their apprentices, who have converged on Omaha for the 19th Omaha…

[spokanefavs]

The spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival is in person from Jan. 28-30 at Jepson Center, Gonzaga University Online Jan. 28- Feb.5. See more below.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The 32nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) opening next week will feature the world premiere of a new documentary that highlights thousands of paintings created by a young Jewish German artist before she was killed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at the age of 26.

Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden details the life and impressive amount of roughly 1,300 paintings that Salomon created before her deportation to Auschwitz.

“Narrated as though from her own voice and featuring a cascade of her images, the film delves into her youth in Berlin, her escape to the south of France after the rise of the Nazis, her love affair with a music teacher, and the creative explosion that resulted in her brilliant body of multimedia work — ahead-of-their-time creations mixing gouache, text, and music,” NYJFF said in its synopsis of the film.

The documentary, which is in French with English subtitles, will be screened at the New York Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 18 and will include a Q&A with the documentary’s co-directors, Delphine and Muriel Coulin. The film festival will run virtually and in-person from Jan. 12-23 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City.

Salomon was born in 1917 in Germany. In 1939, after Kristallnacht, she left her home country and moved to France to live with her grandparents, who fled Germany earlier when the Nazis took power, according to Yad Vashem. In the spring of 1943, two years after the Nazi occupation of France, Nazi official Alois Bruner organized the deportation of 1,800 Jews from Nice, and Charlotte was taken with her husband and sent to a detention camp for French Jews and then to Auschwitz. Upon their arrival in the concentration camp, Salomon, who was then 26 years old and five months pregnant, was sent to the gas chambers, where she was killed.

Her husband, Alexander Nagler, was sent to forced labor and survived until early 1944 while her parents survived the war by hiding in The Netherlands.

Charlotte’s paintings were given to a local doctor in Nice to keep safe and after the war Salomon’s parents reclaimed her collection of artwork. They lated donated her archive to the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

[eretzyisrael]

by Dion J. Pierre

A famous theater in the Ontario province of Canada is facing widespread criticism over its “postponement” of the upcoming Hamilton Jewish Film Festival, a decision that many observers have interpreted as a cancelation motivated by anti-Israel animus.

“After receiving numerous security and safety related emails, phone calls, and social media messages, the Playhouse Cinema reached a difficult decision to postpone the Hamilton Jewish Federation’s venue rental,” the Playhouse Cinema, located in the city of Hamilton, said in a statement posted to X/Twitter on Tuesday. “On Saturday, March 16, our decision to postpone this venue rental was reached amid security and safety concerns at this particularly sensitive time.”

Organized by the Hamilton Jewish Federation, the event was slated to feature six films across three days, April 7-9, with each exploring different eras of Jewish history, from life in modern day kibbutzim bordering the Gaza strip to Poland during the communist purges of Jews in the 1960s. Several of the films were written and produced in Israel by Israeli creators.

On Wednesday, the Hamilton Jewish Federation said that Playhouse Cinema, in canceling the festival, has acted dishonorably and adhered to the wishes of antisemites.

“The Hamilton Jewish Federation is outraged by the recent decision made by the Playhouse Cinema to backtrack on its commitment to host the 2024 Hamilton Jewish Film Festival after the theatre received a small number of complaints and threatening emails objecting to the fact that Israeli films are included in this year’s line-up,” the group said. “The decision, coming just weeks before the scheduled event, is a lost opportunity to engage the Greater Hamilton community in a Jewish cultural event during the highest rise of antisemitism we’ve seen in recent history, and in the aftermath of the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust.”

Antisemitism has skyrocketed in Canada since the Hamas terror group’s onslaught across southern Israel on Oct. 7.

The Hamilton Jewish Federation added that the films that would have been screened are culturally relevant and valuable for portraying the past and “contemporary Jewish experience,” as well as the “reality of co-existence” between Jews and Arabs living in Israel as neighbors and citizens. One of them, it noted, is the final project of a filmmaker Hamas murdered during its Oct. 7 massacre, a tragedy that has left an indelible scar on Jewish communities throughout the world.

Jewish nonprofits commented on the matter on Tuesday and Wednesday, describing the festival’s scrapping as an injustice and calling on lawmakers to intervene and restore the original agreement between both parities.

“Unacceptable and appalling,” tweeted HonestReporting Canada, a nonprofit that promotes fair media coverage of Israel. “Silencing Jewish voices in a time when Jews are the #1 targeted religious group for hate crimes in Canada is a dangerous precedent and only gives more ammunition to those who hide their antisemitism under the guise of ‘anti-Zionism.'”

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose mission is to combat antisemitism and spread awareness of the Holocaust, added, “We denounce Playhouse Cinema’s decision to reverse its commitment to host the Hamilton Jewish Film Festival this year, in the latest example of an organization yielding to threats and intimidation from anti-Israel activists.”

[richardarmitagefanpage]

The Boy in the Woods will be screened at the Phoenix Cinema on May 18 in London UK.

It also will be screened at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival on June 2 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.