"I would ask him about the people in the pictures, and he would say 'these are our people.'" Abramorama has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Vishniac, about a photographer who has been forgotten in time. Difficult and flamboyant, Roman Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. But it would be up to his daughter to preserve his legacy. American-Israeli Director Laura Bialis (Rock in the Red Zone), along with executive producer Nancy Spielberg and producer Roberta Grossman, take us on a journey through the various chapters in the life of the photographer. From the cosmopolitan streets of pre-war Berlin, to the shtetlach in Poland and Lithuania to the Princeton offices of Albert Einstein, Vishniac's achievements in art & science invited praise and controversy. Vishniac explores the person behind the photos, while illuminating the many surprising chapters of his life.
- 1/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Annette Bening, who recently starred in Netflix’s biopic “Nyad,” will receive a special Golden Medallion tribute award from the Telluride Film Festival on Jan. 6, 2024. Meg Ryan will present the award to her at Netflix’s Tudum Theater in Los Angeles. The event will also feature a conversation focused on her career trajectory, which Bening’s “Nyad” co-star Jodie Foster will moderate.
Due to the actors strike, Bening was unable to accept the honor at the Telluride Film Festival in September, marking the first time Telluride has presented an honor outside of the dates of the festival. Previous Golden Medallion recipients include Cate Blanchett, Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet.
Bening was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying Diana Nyad. She has also received Oscar nominations for “The Grifters,” “American Beauty,” “Being Julia” and “The Kids Are All Right.”
Charles D. King to Receive Milestone Award at 2024 Producers Guild...
Due to the actors strike, Bening was unable to accept the honor at the Telluride Film Festival in September, marking the first time Telluride has presented an honor outside of the dates of the festival. Previous Golden Medallion recipients include Cate Blanchett, Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet.
Bening was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying Diana Nyad. She has also received Oscar nominations for “The Grifters,” “American Beauty,” “Being Julia” and “The Kids Are All Right.”
Charles D. King to Receive Milestone Award at 2024 Producers Guild...
- 12/19/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Valerie Wu, Jaden Thompson and Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles nonprofit Jewish Story Partners announced $450,000 in new grants to fund 18 different documentary projects this week.
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
- 12/15/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Abramorama founder Richard Abramowitz has elevated longtime business partner Karol Martesko-Fenster to CEO and Co-Chairman of the indie distribution company. Evan Saxon has been promoted to President, Head of International Distribution, in a move meant to double down on their continued emphasis on social impact and music-driven content for theatrical and event releases globally.
Abramowitz continues as Co-Chairman atop the company he founded in 2002.
“Karol, Evan and I have worked closely together for years, with their partnership driving unparalleled results in the event-cinema world,” Abramowitz said. “Their decades-long experience in the music and social impact film genres makes me confident that they will take the company to the next level and continue to dominate, innovate and lead the way as the industry continues to evolve.”
Martesko-Fenster will lead the company in expanding its footprint and partnerships in the filmed entertainment sector while bolstering the strategic services to filmmakers and IP owners across all platforms.
Abramowitz continues as Co-Chairman atop the company he founded in 2002.
“Karol, Evan and I have worked closely together for years, with their partnership driving unparalleled results in the event-cinema world,” Abramowitz said. “Their decades-long experience in the music and social impact film genres makes me confident that they will take the company to the next level and continue to dominate, innovate and lead the way as the industry continues to evolve.”
Martesko-Fenster will lead the company in expanding its footprint and partnerships in the filmed entertainment sector while bolstering the strategic services to filmmakers and IP owners across all platforms.
- 9/13/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Jewish Story Partners (Jsp), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit film funding organization, has announced its new slate of grants to 19 documentary film projects.
The org, which was launched in April 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, will distribute $490,000 among these independent films, all of which explore the vast and vibrant terrain of the Jewish storytelling space. The announcement coincides with Jewish American Heritage Month and a commitment from President Joe Biden’s White House administration to develop a national strategy to counter antisemitism and “address increasing awareness and understanding of both antisemitism and Jewish American heritage.”
Since its inception, Jsp has disbursed $2 million in funding to 72 documentaries telling diverse Jewish stories.
On the heels of previous Jsp-funded films that have premiered at Sundance — including Paula Eiselt’s “Under G-d,” Luke Lorentzen’s “A Still Small Voice” and Ondi Timoner’s Oscar-shortlisted and Emmy contender “Last Flight Home...
The org, which was launched in April 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, will distribute $490,000 among these independent films, all of which explore the vast and vibrant terrain of the Jewish storytelling space. The announcement coincides with Jewish American Heritage Month and a commitment from President Joe Biden’s White House administration to develop a national strategy to counter antisemitism and “address increasing awareness and understanding of both antisemitism and Jewish American heritage.”
Since its inception, Jsp has disbursed $2 million in funding to 72 documentaries telling diverse Jewish stories.
On the heels of previous Jsp-funded films that have premiered at Sundance — including Paula Eiselt’s “Under G-d,” Luke Lorentzen’s “A Still Small Voice” and Ondi Timoner’s Oscar-shortlisted and Emmy contender “Last Flight Home...
- 5/23/2023
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Jewish Story Partners, the non-profit film fund that launched six months ago, announced its second round of grant recipients on Monday. The winners came after an open submissions call that saw a 226% increase in participation from the first round.
An additional $280,000 has been awarded this year, bringing Jsp’s 2021 spend to $500,000 as they identify nonfiction work telling diverse Jewish stories. International filmmakers and fiction projects will be sought in the future. The group anticipates to hand out $800,000 in 2022 and $1 million by 2023.
New funders include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Films, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Kronhill Pletka Foundation and Koret Foundation.
Monday’s grants will fund noted documentary filmmakers including: Kate Amend, Marilyn Ness, Pratibha Parmar, Dan Sturman and Ondi Timoner.
“Jewish documentary films are a window into the richness and complexity of the arc of Jewish history and Jewish lives today,” said Lynn and...
An additional $280,000 has been awarded this year, bringing Jsp’s 2021 spend to $500,000 as they identify nonfiction work telling diverse Jewish stories. International filmmakers and fiction projects will be sought in the future. The group anticipates to hand out $800,000 in 2022 and $1 million by 2023.
New funders include the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Films, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, Kronhill Pletka Foundation and Koret Foundation.
Monday’s grants will fund noted documentary filmmakers including: Kate Amend, Marilyn Ness, Pratibha Parmar, Dan Sturman and Ondi Timoner.
“Jewish documentary films are a window into the richness and complexity of the arc of Jewish history and Jewish lives today,” said Lynn and...
- 11/22/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Jewish Story Partners, a new Los Angeles-based film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, named its first round of grantees Wednesday including projects from Joey Soloway (Transparent), Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Our New President) and Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family).
Jsp awarded a total of $225,000 to ten U.S. documentary projects. The selections jury included Lou Cove, founder of Jewish arts funding collaborative Canvas; documentary film producer Julie Goldman, and Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival.
“We are honored to support this bold and imaginative group of filmmakers and their projects,” the trio said in a joint statement. “These excellent films reflect a broad range of Jewish experiences, from the spiritual and artistic to the cultural and political.”
Jsp is led by Roberta Grossman, who serves as Producing Director, and veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director,...
Jsp awarded a total of $225,000 to ten U.S. documentary projects. The selections jury included Lou Cove, founder of Jewish arts funding collaborative Canvas; documentary film producer Julie Goldman, and Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival.
“We are honored to support this bold and imaginative group of filmmakers and their projects,” the trio said in a joint statement. “These excellent films reflect a broad range of Jewish experiences, from the spiritual and artistic to the cultural and political.”
Jsp is led by Roberta Grossman, who serves as Producing Director, and veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Organisation targets $500,000 in grants to US-based feature length documentaries in first wave.
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation are among backers of Los Angeles-based film foundation Jewish Story Partners (Jsp), which has launched with $2m in funding to support films across the spectrum of the Jewish experience.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman will serve as producing director and producer, veteran film festival programmer and former Sundance Catalyst director Caroline Libresco is named artistic director.
Jsp will announce its first round of grantees shortly and has earmarked $500,000 in grants to US-based feature length documentaries to be selected by jury panels.
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation are among backers of Los Angeles-based film foundation Jewish Story Partners (Jsp), which has launched with $2m in funding to support films across the spectrum of the Jewish experience.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman will serve as producing director and producer, veteran film festival programmer and former Sundance Catalyst director Caroline Libresco is named artistic director.
Jsp will announce its first round of grantees shortly and has earmarked $500,000 in grants to US-based feature length documentaries to be selected by jury panels.
- 4/15/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw are helping to launch Jewish Story Partners, an LA-based film foundation to support diverse Jewish voices.
Through their Righteous Persons Foundation, Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $1 million. Maimonides Fund, a private grantmaking organization that operates in North America and Israel, matched the initial funding, with additional support from Jim Joseph Foundation. Collectively, Jewish Story Partners has $2.25 million in financing.
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths,” Spielberg and Capshaw said in a statement. “We are especially proud to help establish this initiative — which will make visible a fuller range of Jewish voices, identities, experiences, and perspectives — at a time when social divisions run painfully deep and mainstream depictions too often fail to reflect the Jewish community in all its complexity. We hope that Jsp projects will long be a source of meaning within the Jewish community and beyond.
Through their Righteous Persons Foundation, Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $1 million. Maimonides Fund, a private grantmaking organization that operates in North America and Israel, matched the initial funding, with additional support from Jim Joseph Foundation. Collectively, Jewish Story Partners has $2.25 million in financing.
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths,” Spielberg and Capshaw said in a statement. “We are especially proud to help establish this initiative — which will make visible a fuller range of Jewish voices, identities, experiences, and perspectives — at a time when social divisions run painfully deep and mainstream depictions too often fail to reflect the Jewish community in all its complexity. We hope that Jsp projects will long be a source of meaning within the Jewish community and beyond.
- 4/15/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, launches today aiming to “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.”
Backers also include the Maimonides Fund, which matched the Spielberg foundation grant, the Jim Joseph Foundation and others. The LA-based organization with well over $2 million in funding will, starting this year, provide $500,000 in grants to U.S.-based feature length documentaries to be selected by jury panels.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman is Producing Director, with veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director and producer Caroline Libresco as Artistic Director.
The new foundation said it’s responding “to the glaring gap in funding as well as the pressing need to expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives.”
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths. We...
Backers also include the Maimonides Fund, which matched the Spielberg foundation grant, the Jim Joseph Foundation and others. The LA-based organization with well over $2 million in funding will, starting this year, provide $500,000 in grants to U.S.-based feature length documentaries to be selected by jury panels.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman is Producing Director, with veteran film festival programmer, former Sundance Catalyst director and producer Caroline Libresco as Artistic Director.
The new foundation said it’s responding “to the glaring gap in funding as well as the pressing need to expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives.”
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths. We...
- 4/15/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
A new L.A.-based film foundation called Jewish Story Partners launched Thursday with the goal of expanding the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives, with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw backing the organization.
Jewish Story Partners supports independent films that give fresh, nuanced perspectives to tell a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories and cultures, and the group was also founded with the mission of addressing the glaring gap of funding in Jewish stories. The film foundation hopes to explore untold narratives and re-cast familiar ones, preserve historical memory, surprise with new ideas, challenge established positions, confront difficult realities and breach artistic frontiers.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman will serve as Jsp’s producing director, and veteran film festival programmer Caroline Libresco, formerly Sundance Catalyst’s director, will serve as artistic director. The foundation will soon announce its first round of grantees.
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and...
Jewish Story Partners supports independent films that give fresh, nuanced perspectives to tell a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories and cultures, and the group was also founded with the mission of addressing the glaring gap of funding in Jewish stories. The film foundation hopes to explore untold narratives and re-cast familiar ones, preserve historical memory, surprise with new ideas, challenge established positions, confront difficult realities and breach artistic frontiers.
Filmmaker Roberta Grossman will serve as Jsp’s producing director, and veteran film festival programmer Caroline Libresco, formerly Sundance Catalyst’s director, will serve as artistic director. The foundation will soon announce its first round of grantees.
“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and...
- 4/15/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw want to tell more Jewish stories on the screen, but not for entertainment or escapism.
The Hollywood filmmaker and humanitarians offered seed financing through their Righteous Persons Foundation for Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation unveiled on Thursday, to be led by filmmaker Roberta Grossman and former Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco.
The goal is to tell more social justice stories and expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives. “There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths. We are especially proud to help establish this ...
The Hollywood filmmaker and humanitarians offered seed financing through their Righteous Persons Foundation for Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation unveiled on Thursday, to be led by filmmaker Roberta Grossman and former Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco.
The goal is to tell more social justice stories and expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives. “There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths. We are especially proud to help establish this ...
- 4/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw want to tell more Jewish stories on the screen, but not for entertainment or escapism.
The Hollywood filmmaker and humanitarians offered seed financing for Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation unveiled on Thursday, to be led by filmmaker Roberta Grossman and former Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco.
The goal is to tell more social justice stories and expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives. “It is a moment not only of rising anti-Semitism but of a racial reckoning in which American Jews are grappling with their role — their ‘whiteness’ or ...
The Hollywood filmmaker and humanitarians offered seed financing for Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation unveiled on Thursday, to be led by filmmaker Roberta Grossman and former Sundance senior programmer Caroline Libresco.
The goal is to tell more social justice stories and expand the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives. “It is a moment not only of rising anti-Semitism but of a racial reckoning in which American Jews are grappling with their role — their ‘whiteness’ or ...
- 4/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Discovery has acquired global television rights to Warsaw Ghetto documentary Who Will Write Our History from the film’s distributor Abramorama. The Discovery broadcast is scheduled for January 2020 in the U.S. and several territories worldwide.
Giant Pictures, Kathadin Productions, Playmount Productions and Match&Spark also are behind the film from director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg.
Featuring narration from Joan Allen and The Pianist star Adrien Brody, Who Will Write Our History is set in November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, when a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, the clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews,...
Giant Pictures, Kathadin Productions, Playmount Productions and Match&Spark also are behind the film from director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg.
Featuring narration from Joan Allen and The Pianist star Adrien Brody, Who Will Write Our History is set in November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, when a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, the clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Who Will Write Our History’: Warsaw Ghetto Doc Gets Encore Screenings For Holocaust Remembrance Day
Exclusive: Warsaw Ghetto documentary Who Will Write Our History is set to have around 100 encore screenings in more than 20 countries this week to coincide with Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Abramorama, Giant Pictures, Kathadin Productions, Playmount Productions and Match&Spark are behind the film from director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg.
Featuring narration from Joan Allen and The Pianist star Adrien Brody, the film mixes archive footage, dramatization and interviews to tell the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret record he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is considered the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived.
The film had a global event cinema release on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, and also...
Abramorama, Giant Pictures, Kathadin Productions, Playmount Productions and Match&Spark are behind the film from director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg.
Featuring narration from Joan Allen and The Pianist star Adrien Brody, the film mixes archive footage, dramatization and interviews to tell the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret record he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is considered the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived.
The film had a global event cinema release on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, and also...
- 4/30/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The most famous diarist of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, began to write down the drama of her daily life with no ulterior motive (apart from her teenage ambition to write fiction). But in March 1944, the year before she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she heard a radio broadcast by a member of the Dutch government in exile who promised to publish the letters and diaries of his people after the war. From that moment on, Anne Frank knew that she was writing for posterity, even if she could never have guessed how important her words would one day become.
By contrast, the diarists chronicled in “Who Will Write Our History,” a vital and sobering documentary directed by Roberta Grossman, always knew that they were drafting the record of an existence whose memory — were it not for them — would be wiped away. They were Jewish residents of Warsaw who, in...
By contrast, the diarists chronicled in “Who Will Write Our History,” a vital and sobering documentary directed by Roberta Grossman, always knew that they were drafting the record of an existence whose memory — were it not for them — would be wiped away. They were Jewish residents of Warsaw who, in...
- 1/19/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The Wife star Glenn Close will be honored at the 14th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, put on by the U.S.-Ireland Alliance. Previous winner Melissa McCarthy will present the award during a ceremony February 21 at Bad Robot in Santa Monica. The alliance will also honor Aiden Gillen at the ceremony to be emceed by Bad Robot principal J.J. Abrams, also a previous winner. Close won the Golden Globe Best Actress-Drama award for Sony Pictures Classics’ The Wife, which opened in August. The six-time Oscar nominee has also scored a win for role at the Critics’ Choice Awards and noms from SAG, BAFTA and the Spirit Awards.
Who Will Write Our History, Abramorama’s Roberta Grossman documentary about a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 who fought back against Nazi propaganda with pen and paper, will be spotlighted...
Who Will Write Our History, Abramorama’s Roberta Grossman documentary about a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 who fought back against Nazi propaganda with pen and paper, will be spotlighted...
- 1/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Who Will Write Our History Abramorama Reviewed for Shockya.com and BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Roberta Grossman Screenwriter: Roberta Grossman, Samuel Kassow from Kassow’s book “Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto” Cast: Jowitz Budnik, Piotr Glowacki, Piotr Jankowski, Wojciech Zielinski, Karolina Gruzka, Bartlomiej Kotschedoff, Gera Sandler Screened at: […]
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- 1/7/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
In today’s film news roundup, Sony moves “Grudge” into the “Toy Story 4” slot, “Who Will Write Our History” gets distribution and 60 companies from 15 countries will be making their Afm debut as market exhibitors.
Release Date
Sony Pictures has moved “Grudge,” its reboot of the 2004 supernatural thriller “The Grudge,” forward to June 21 from Aug. 16.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. The 2004 film was a remake of the 2002 Japanese film “Jun-On: The Grudge,” which centers on a curse created when someone dies in rage or sorrow.
“Grudge” is directed by Nicolas Pesce for Ghost House and Good Universe. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce for Ghost House with Nathan Kahane and Erin Westerman executive producing for Good Universe alongside Schuyler Weiss, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, John Middleton, and Andrew Pfeffer.
“Grudge” becomes the second title dated for June 21, joining Pixar-Disney’s “Toy Story 4.
Release Date
Sony Pictures has moved “Grudge,” its reboot of the 2004 supernatural thriller “The Grudge,” forward to June 21 from Aug. 16.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Lin Shaye and Jacki Weaver. The 2004 film was a remake of the 2002 Japanese film “Jun-On: The Grudge,” which centers on a curse created when someone dies in rage or sorrow.
“Grudge” is directed by Nicolas Pesce for Ghost House and Good Universe. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert will produce for Ghost House with Nathan Kahane and Erin Westerman executive producing for Good Universe alongside Schuyler Weiss, Roy Lee, Doug Davison, John Middleton, and Andrew Pfeffer.
“Grudge” becomes the second title dated for June 21, joining Pixar-Disney’s “Toy Story 4.
- 10/24/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Attorney Gloria Allred entered the 15th floor conference room of her law offices on Wilshire Boulevard earlier this week and took a seat behind a cluster of microphones cubed with logos from local, national and international news organizations: CNN, Reuters, Fox11, ABC7, Ktla, Inside Edition, Estrella TV and more.
“Today we’re filing a lawsuit against USC,” she declared solemnly, as camera shutters clicked and flash units fired.
It was Allred in her element, which is to say the famed lawyer skillfully addressing the media in a cause related to women’s rights, in this case a student who alleges USC gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall sexually violated her during a 2016 medical exam.
“We allege sexual battery in violation of California Civil Code 1708.5, also battery, gender violence in violation of California Civil Code 52.4, negligent hiring and retention,” Allred told the assembled reporters as her client sat next to her.
A similar...
“Today we’re filing a lawsuit against USC,” she declared solemnly, as camera shutters clicked and flash units fired.
It was Allred in her element, which is to say the famed lawyer skillfully addressing the media in a cause related to women’s rights, in this case a student who alleges USC gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall sexually violated her during a 2016 medical exam.
“We allege sexual battery in violation of California Civil Code 1708.5, also battery, gender violence in violation of California Civil Code 52.4, negligent hiring and retention,” Allred told the assembled reporters as her client sat next to her.
A similar...
- 5/24/2018
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Famed women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, an ardent foe of President Trump, might not welcome a comparison to him. But there is one thing they share in common: a mastery of the media.
As witnessed in the Netflix documentary Seeing Allred, now contending for Emmy nominations, when Allred calls a news conference on behalf of a client, reporters never fail to assemble. But filmmakers Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain point to what they say is a key distinction between Trump and Allred.
“I think it’s true that they both know how to use the media to their own ends, but the question is, what is the end?” Grossman tells Deadline. “Gloria is not using the media to call attention to herself—or only to herself insofar as when she accrues power through the media then that gets translated to her clients. She’s doing it in the service...
As witnessed in the Netflix documentary Seeing Allred, now contending for Emmy nominations, when Allred calls a news conference on behalf of a client, reporters never fail to assemble. But filmmakers Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain point to what they say is a key distinction between Trump and Allred.
“I think it’s true that they both know how to use the media to their own ends, but the question is, what is the end?” Grossman tells Deadline. “Gloria is not using the media to call attention to herself—or only to herself insofar as when she accrues power through the media then that gets translated to her clients. She’s doing it in the service...
- 4/26/2018
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Allred, who had gone up against Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump, is captured in a new film arriving at a highly opportune time
Early on in Seeing Allred, Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain’s documentary on the controversial lawyer Gloria Allred, the fierce equal rights advocate grooms herself for the camera in her oceanfront home, grabs a red blazer from her color-coordinated closet – mostly St John, size two – and speeds off towards the city in her black Porsche. “Power only understands power,” declares Allred, her maxim for decades of warfare that have seen her get called shrill, unliked, a media hound, and a lying, money-hungry ghoul.
Related: Seeing Allred review – Gloria Allred documentary offers mixed evidence...
Early on in Seeing Allred, Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain’s documentary on the controversial lawyer Gloria Allred, the fierce equal rights advocate grooms herself for the camera in her oceanfront home, grabs a red blazer from her color-coordinated closet – mostly St John, size two – and speeds off towards the city in her black Porsche. “Power only understands power,” declares Allred, her maxim for decades of warfare that have seen her get called shrill, unliked, a media hound, and a lying, money-hungry ghoul.
Related: Seeing Allred review – Gloria Allred documentary offers mixed evidence...
- 2/12/2018
- by Amy Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Even if you don’t know exactly what infamous women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred does, you have likely gleaned a few things from the cultural consciousness about her: She’s loud, attention-hungry and in “it” for the money. At least, that’s what numerous talk-show commentators and the U.S. president would like you to believe. Directors Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain, then, had an almost easy task of revealing the real Allred in their Netflix documentary “Seeing Allred”: if we really know nothing about the woman, then we’re certain to be surprised. And in this film, pleasantly so. The film opens with Allred selecting...
- 2/8/2018
- by April Wolfe
- The Wrap
From directors Sophie Sartain (Mimi and Dona) and Roberta Grossman (Above and Beyond) comes Seeing Allred, a documentary portrait of famed women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred. The film premieres at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and will reach Netflix on February 9. Sartain and Grossman tapped Alex Pollini, a Dp on many shorts, including more than 30 for CollegeHumor, to shoot the film. Below, Pollini discusses his experiences capturing Allred in her private moments “outside of the press conferences and big public events.” Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the […]...
- 1/27/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Seeing Allred, Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman's documentary about outspoken lawyer Gloria Allred's passionate advocacy, just had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, and it seems like the film came at the right time.
With the rise of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, women in entertainment and all over the world are starting to see change happening. But as executive producer Marta Kauffman told The Hollywood Reporter, the fight isn’t over yet.
“I think we have come a long way, but I think we have a really long way to go until Hollywood is willing to make movies by...
With the rise of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, women in entertainment and all over the world are starting to see change happening. But as executive producer Marta Kauffman told The Hollywood Reporter, the fight isn’t over yet.
“I think we have come a long way, but I think we have a really long way to go until Hollywood is willing to make movies by...
- 1/22/2018
- by Ciara McVey
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Utterly and passionately hagiographic, the documentary Seeing Allred presents 96 minutes of reasons to stand and cheer for celebrated feminist lawyer Gloria Allred.
That means, of course, that for ultra-conservative lovers of Netflix documentaries, it's doubtful that Seeing Allred is going to dramatically change any opinions about her.
For people with more tempered views on the notorious attorney, Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman's documentary leaves a lot of questions unasked and tiptoes around plenty of other relevant conversations, but in its presentation of a career-in-full, it advocates persuasively for this advocate.
Seeing Allred, premiering as part of the U.S....
That means, of course, that for ultra-conservative lovers of Netflix documentaries, it's doubtful that Seeing Allred is going to dramatically change any opinions about her.
For people with more tempered views on the notorious attorney, Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman's documentary leaves a lot of questions unasked and tiptoes around plenty of other relevant conversations, but in its presentation of a career-in-full, it advocates persuasively for this advocate.
Seeing Allred, premiering as part of the U.S....
- 1/22/2018
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"There is a war on women... Women depend on me to be strong." Netflix has debuted the first trailer for a documentary titled Seeing Allred, premiering at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival this month. Directed by doc filmmakers Sophie Sartain & Roberta Grossman, the film profiles activist and women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, who has become even more prominent in the last few years with so many high profile sexual assault cases. The doc features key interviews with Gloria Steinem, Don Lemon, Alan Dershowitz, Allred's daughter Lisa Bloom and many others. Seeing Allred is described as "a portrait of a woman everyone thinks they know, at a time when women need her the most." This looks like a powerful, timely, very important film that goes beyond just profiling the life of a candid activist, by also holding up a mirror to society today. First trailer (+ poster) for Sophie Sartain & Roberta Grossman's documentary Seeing Allred,...
- 1/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Starting this week, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, but even if you won’t be at Park City, we’re rounding up an initial glimpse at the premieres. After highlighting our most-anticipated films, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with the Jon Hamm-led Beirut, World Cinema offerings Pity and Loveling, the documentaries Seeing Allred and Genesis 2.0 (pictured above), and more.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be posting reviews from Park City soon, so follow along here.
Beirut (Brad Anderson)
A U.S. diplomat flees Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
A Boy, A Girl, A Dream.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be posting reviews from Park City soon, so follow along here.
Beirut (Brad Anderson)
A U.S. diplomat flees Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
A Boy, A Girl, A Dream.
- 1/15/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Netflix will launch Seeing Allred, a new documentary about feminist attorney Gloria Allred, on its service in early 2018, following its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, which announced its lineup on Wednesday.
Directed by Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman, the film traces the life of the nation’s most visible women’s rights attorney, who has taken on President Donald Trump, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and has become a force within the #MeToo movement of victims speaking out about being abused by powerful men. Marta Kauffman, co-creator of Friends and who...
Directed by Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman, the film traces the life of the nation’s most visible women’s rights attorney, who has taken on President Donald Trump, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and has become a force within the #MeToo movement of victims speaking out about being abused by powerful men. Marta Kauffman, co-creator of Friends and who...
- 11/29/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
May shoot for Who Will Write Our History about the Oyneg Shabes archive; Nancy Spielberg produces with support from Steven Spielberg-chaired fund.
Shoot will begin on May 5, 2016, on Roberta Grossman’s Who Will Write Our History, the feature documentary telling the story of the hidden ‘Oyneg Shabes’ archive of 30,000 documents buried in 1943 on the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
The film is executive-produced by Nancy Spielberg and has received support from the Righteous Persons Foundation which her brother Steven Spielberg set up with proceeds from his 1994 film, Schindler’s List.
Oscar nominee Joan Allen is to provide narration for the film which is based on Samuel Kassow’s well-received 2007 book of the same name.
The Oyneg Shabes archive is the extraordinarily revealing hoard of letters, confessionals, last testaments, poems and questionnaires compiled under the guidance of Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
The documents...
Shoot will begin on May 5, 2016, on Roberta Grossman’s Who Will Write Our History, the feature documentary telling the story of the hidden ‘Oyneg Shabes’ archive of 30,000 documents buried in 1943 on the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
The film is executive-produced by Nancy Spielberg and has received support from the Righteous Persons Foundation which her brother Steven Spielberg set up with proceeds from his 1994 film, Schindler’s List.
Oscar nominee Joan Allen is to provide narration for the film which is based on Samuel Kassow’s well-received 2007 book of the same name.
The Oyneg Shabes archive is the extraordinarily revealing hoard of letters, confessionals, last testaments, poems and questionnaires compiled under the guidance of Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
The documents...
- 4/25/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
I imagine this will get much more press than this, and I cannot understand why it has not received it as of this date. Opening theatrically January 30 in the Village East Cinema in New York, Roberta Grossman's "Above and Beyond," which International Film Circuit will distribute, is notably produced by Nancy Spielberg, the sister of Steven. This “untold true story” of a group of Jewish American pilots who in secret and at great personal risk smuggled planes out of the U.S. and flew them of Israel in its 1948 War of Independence was directed by.
Nancy Grossman who also directed and produced "Hava Nagila: The Movie" which played so well with the Jewish audiences in the art house theaters in 2012.
“Above and Beyond” has played in the Jerusalem Film Festival, Doc NY, and 25 other Jewish film festivals and continues to play them.
This ragtag band of soldiers not only turned the tide of the war; they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and renewed Jewish pride. Through interviews with the pilots and stunning aerial footage “Above and Beyond" presents a fascinating, little-known tale filled with heart, heroism and high-flying chutzpah. Check it out online at www.aboveandbeyondthemovie.com and at an art house near you!
Nancy Grossman who also directed and produced "Hava Nagila: The Movie" which played so well with the Jewish audiences in the art house theaters in 2012.
“Above and Beyond” has played in the Jerusalem Film Festival, Doc NY, and 25 other Jewish film festivals and continues to play them.
This ragtag band of soldiers not only turned the tide of the war; they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and renewed Jewish pride. Through interviews with the pilots and stunning aerial footage “Above and Beyond" presents a fascinating, little-known tale filled with heart, heroism and high-flying chutzpah. Check it out online at www.aboveandbeyondthemovie.com and at an art house near you!
- 1/27/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Director Steven Spielberg has extensively explored war in films like Saving Private Ryan (with flares of history's wars in the Indiana Jones films), but even moreso in HBO miniseries' like "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific." But now it's his sister Nancy Spielberg stepping up with a documentary that she produced called Above and Beyond. The film follows the journey of a group of skilled American pilots, many of them Jewish, who answered the call to aid Israel in its War of Independence just three years after World War II. This looks like a fantastic untapped chronicle of heroic pilots fighting for Israel. Watch below now! Here's the trailer for Roberta Grossman's Above and Beyond from THR: Above and Beyond is directed by Roberta Grossman (Blessed is the Match), written by Sophie Sartain, and produced by Nancy Spielberg. In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight...
- 12/30/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Tags: Afternoon DelightPeachesMary-Louise ParkerTina FeyRoberta GrossmanSophie SartainIMDbTilda SwintonChyler Leigh
Good afternoon and happy hump day!
Happy birthday to Kate Mara, Debra Monk and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas!
The fabulous and angular Tilda Swinton is the new face of Chanel. Good choice, Chanel!
Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Dr. Lexie Grey is back! Well, what I really mean is actress Chyler Leigh will be returning to the small screen for the NBC comedy pilot Holding Patterns. The series will follow “a group of friends whose lives are altered after surviving a plane crash.” And no, I’m not kidding. Leigh has been cast as “Leah, the irresponsible, absent-minded, perpetually late slacker. Her life’s a mess and she lacks direction, but she’s not a loser; she’s intelligent, funny, and genuinely values her friends, even when sarcastically mocking them.”
On Sunday, March 10 the Indigo Girls will be performing during...
Good afternoon and happy hump day!
Happy birthday to Kate Mara, Debra Monk and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas!
The fabulous and angular Tilda Swinton is the new face of Chanel. Good choice, Chanel!
Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Dr. Lexie Grey is back! Well, what I really mean is actress Chyler Leigh will be returning to the small screen for the NBC comedy pilot Holding Patterns. The series will follow “a group of friends whose lives are altered after surviving a plane crash.” And no, I’m not kidding. Leigh has been cast as “Leah, the irresponsible, absent-minded, perpetually late slacker. Her life’s a mess and she lacks direction, but she’s not a loser; she’s intelligent, funny, and genuinely values her friends, even when sarcastically mocking them.”
On Sunday, March 10 the Indigo Girls will be performing during...
- 2/27/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
Something like the doc equivalent of a Yiddish-humor bathroom book, vet TV-doc producer Roberta Grossman's tirelessly glib little movie tracks the cultural trajectory of the eponymous song "from Ukraine to YouTube," and makes a big tzimmes along the way about "being Jewish," as if that required practice. The historical roots of the song in the nigunim of Eastern European shtetls are traced within the first 15 minutes; thereafter, Grossman relishes doodling on the American diaspora and the growth of affluent Jewish culture after World War II, when the ubiquitous party ditty got covered by everyone from Harry Belafonte (interviewed) to Bob Dylan (not), and grotesque bar mitzvah fetes were the defiant answer to memories of the Holocaust. Patronizing from toe to chin, the film opts ...
- 2/27/2013
- Village Voice
Roberta Grossman’s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh and Gini Reticker’s Pray the Devil Back to Hell (above, lower photo) will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 11, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free. Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh tells the story of poet, diarist, and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, who took part in the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Blessed Is the Match was also produced by Grossman, who will be present to take questions from [...]...
- 11/9/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Now available on DVD from the Katahdin Films Web site is a documentary that has been doing well on the festival circuit over the last year, Blessed Is the Match, which tells the story of World War Two heroine Hannah Senesh. She was a poet who turned herself into a paratrooper in a doomed effort to rescue the Jews of Hungary from the Nazis. Senesh had a largely comfortable childhood, growing up as part of an assimilated Jewish family in Budapest. Her father, who died when she was six, was journalist and playwright Bela Senesh. She embraced Zionism during her teenage years, when her home city became suddenly more anti-Semitic. At the start of World War II, she left home for Palestine, leaving behind her mother, whom she would later encounter in a Nazi-run prison. Blessed Is the Match is directed by Roberta Grossman, who co-wrote and produced the CBS documentary series 500 Nations,...
- 10/2/2009
- Vanity Fair
Hannah Senesh was one brave woman. In 1944, Senesh, a diarist-poet, left the safety of Palestine, where she was part of a kibbutz, to parachute behind enemy lines in a failed mission to rescue Jews in her homeland, Hungary.
She was captured, tortured and executed (at age 23) by the Nazis. Considered a modern-day Joan of Arc in Israel, Senesh is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Roberta Grossman's documentary "Blessed Is the Match" tries to correct that oversight but is only partly successful.
Grossman uses archival material, interviews and ill-advised re-creations to tell the story.
Actress Joan Allen is on hand to voice correspondence by Senesh's mother,...
She was captured, tortured and executed (at age 23) by the Nazis. Considered a modern-day Joan of Arc in Israel, Senesh is relatively unknown elsewhere.
Roberta Grossman's documentary "Blessed Is the Match" tries to correct that oversight but is only partly successful.
Grossman uses archival material, interviews and ill-advised re-creations to tell the story.
Actress Joan Allen is on hand to voice correspondence by Senesh's mother,...
- 1/30/2009
- NYPost.com
By Neil Pedley
The long, slow, soul-crushing stagger towards the Oscars starts this week with many of the nominated prestige pictures that came out three months ago getting back into the spotlight after the flurry of Sundance attention has thawed. Meanwhile, the remake machine cranks out another Asian-inspired chiller, Bollywood goes meta, and Liam Neeson kicks some serious ass.
"Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh"
Given the Hollywood prestige crowd's endless fascination with all things Holocaust, it is unfathomable how the remarkable story of Hannah Senesh remains largely untold. Hailed in her homeland as a modern-day Joan of Arc, the then-20-year-old poet said goodbye to her privileged, middle-class upbringing and enlisted as a paramilitary soldier who volunteered to be part of a unit dropped into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in a daring bid to free captive Jews. Filmmaker Roberta Grossman pours through the young woman's diaries...
The long, slow, soul-crushing stagger towards the Oscars starts this week with many of the nominated prestige pictures that came out three months ago getting back into the spotlight after the flurry of Sundance attention has thawed. Meanwhile, the remake machine cranks out another Asian-inspired chiller, Bollywood goes meta, and Liam Neeson kicks some serious ass.
"Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh"
Given the Hollywood prestige crowd's endless fascination with all things Holocaust, it is unfathomable how the remarkable story of Hannah Senesh remains largely untold. Hailed in her homeland as a modern-day Joan of Arc, the then-20-year-old poet said goodbye to her privileged, middle-class upbringing and enlisted as a paramilitary soldier who volunteered to be part of a unit dropped into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in a daring bid to free captive Jews. Filmmaker Roberta Grossman pours through the young woman's diaries...
- 1/26/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
See new images from Balcony Releasing's documentary "Blessed is the Match," starring Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova, Zdenek Kozakovicm Zdenek Astr, Jundrich Hinke, Monia Malacova, Andrej Polak, Akiva Zasman, Pavla Beretova and Zuzana Stavna. The film is helmed by Roberta Grossman from the writing by Sophie Sartain and us an audience award winner for best documentary at both the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival. Blessed is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper...
- 1/15/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See new images from Balcony Releasing's documentary "Blessed is the Match," starring Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova, Zdenek Kozakovicm Zdenek Astr, Jundrich Hinke, Monia Malacova, Andrej Polak, Akiva Zasman, Pavla Beretova and Zuzana Stavna. The film is helmed by Roberta Grossman from the writing by Sophie Sartain and us an audience award winner for best documentary at both the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival. Blessed is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper...
- 1/15/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See new images and the trailer from Balcony Releasing's documentary "Blessed is the Match," starring Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova, Zdenek Kozakovic, Zdenek Astr, Jundrich Hinke, Monia Malacova, Andrej Polak, Akiva Zasman, Pavla Beretova and Zuzana Stavna. The film is helmed by Roberta Grossman from the writing by Sophie Sartain and us an audience award winner for best documentary at both the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival. See the images here! Blessed is the Match is the firstdocumentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safein Palestine in 1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Her mother Catherine witnessed...
- 1/15/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See new images from Balcony Releasing's documentary "Blessed is the Match," starring Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova, Zdenek Kozakovicm Zdenek Astr, Jundrich Hinke, Monia Malacova, Andrej Polak, Akiva Zasman, Pavla Beretova and Zuzana Stavna. The film is helmed by Roberta Grossman from the writing by Sophie Sartain and us an audience award winner for best documentary at both the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival. Blessed is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper...
- 1/15/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Emmy Award-winning producer Marta Kauffman (Friends) is entering the ranks of the documentary world. She is joining director Roberta Grossman and the nonprofit Production Company the Katahdin Foundation as producer of Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh. The feature docu chronicles the life of Senesh, a World War II-era poet and diarist who became a soldier, martyr and national heroine in Israel. The film, which will finish filming in Israel and Hungary in the fall, is slated for a theatrical release and a national broadcast on public TV in early 2008.
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