Jewish Film Festivals and Films
To share news from the world of Jewish Film Festivals and Film.
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In April 2018 I added 113 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 116 Cameras Adieu my Beloved The Ancestral Sin / Sallah, Po Ze Eretz Yisrael Another Planet / Another Planet / Planeta Aheret At eye level / Auf Augenhöhe Back to Berlin Back to … Read more
From the J: For many Bay Area Jews, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is a summer ritual, an annual film event more important than the Oscars. Some say it is the most Jewish activity they engage in all year. Now, their faithful attendance will hold even more currency. The Jewish Film Institute, which sponsors … Read more
From the San Francisco Chronicle [Steve Oliver] was a key player in the groundbreaking deal that enabled a consortium of vital San Francisco nonprofit film and media arts groups — including Frameline, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival — to buy a building on Ninth Street at … Read more
At the Miss Europe contest in Paris in 1929, a Hungarian Jewish girl offers her beauty for Hungary, which has lost two thirds of its territory as a result of the Trianon Peace Treaty ending World War One. How did the world’s most beautiful woman end up in the hell of Hungarian anti-Semitism? How come … Read more
Paste magazine listed 10 upcoming documentaries to check out. One if them is Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Much, much more than just a pretty face, old Hollywood screen siren Hedy Lamarr invented the blueprints for the very technologies you’re now using to read this story and carry about your everyday life (that would be … Read more
From the Atlanta Jewish Tomes [Nancy] Spielberg, 61, was in her 50s before she jumped into film production, and even then she opted for the documentary approach instead of Hollywood blockbusters. “Even though I scramble for money … it’s still easier sometimes than going the Hollywood route, where you can sit on something for 10 … Read more
Are you the director or organizer of a Jewish Film Festival anywhere in the word and would like your festival get listed on this site (or enhances the already existing listing)? If yes, now there is a way, as I just added a Get Listed form where you can request it to be done. There … Read more
From Don411.com The State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs recently awarded The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee a $25,000 Specific Cultural Project grant to help fund its 2017-2018 cultural arts programming. According to Howard Tevlowitz, JFSM’s executive director, the grant will allow the organization to expand its annual Jewish Film Festival into a year-round program … Read more
A visitor of this website asked: I am a member of a film festival committee working on short films for our festival in 2018. Would you be able to point me to a list of shorts, particularly Israeli films? I thought the answer may be interested to everyone. The simplest way to get an overview … Read more
From Forward: Three films directed by Israelis took center stage in the film listings of the Los Angeles Times’ senior critic Kenneth Turan. The top spot in the “Our Movie Pick” section went to Joseph Cedar’s “Norman,” which tracks the ups, and mainly downs, of a small time New York fixer… The next Israeli pick … Read more