In His Image Does a dead man have the right to become a father? Do parents who have lost their son have the right to become grandparents after his death? In Israel, the drive to procreate has taken on an extra dimension. In His Image follows the bereaved parents of three young Israeli men as they attempt to...
THROUGH THE DARKNESS THROUGH THE DARKNESS illuminates the relationship between two Jewish Austrian artistic geniuses: a story that would change their lives and modern culture forever. In 1907, the aspiring composer Arnold Schoenberg made friends with the brilliant and unknown painter Richard Gerstl. Gerstl and Schoenberg not only shared a passion for art, but also a love for...
The New Jew The New Jew is a four-part mini-series (45 min’ each), hosted by Israeli comedian and T.V. personality, Guri Alfi. In the summer of 2018, Guri and his family moved to the U.S. Like many Israelis abroad he found himself experiencing an identity crisis, questioning what his Jewishness looks like outside of the Jewish State. The...
The New Jew The New Jew is a four-part mini-series (45 min’ each), hosted by Israeli comedian and T.V. personality, Guri Alfi. In the summer of 2018, Guri and his family moved to the U.S. Like many Israelis abroad he found himself experiencing an identity crisis, questioning what his Jewishness looks like outside of the Jewish State. The...
The New Jew The New Jew is a four-part mini-series (45 min’ each), hosted by Israeli comedian and T.V. personality, Guri Alfi. In the summer of 2018, Guri and his family moved to the U.S. Like many Israelis abroad he found himself experiencing an identity crisis, questioning what his Jewishness looks like outside of the Jewish State. The...
Shamir, His Way The film reveals for the first time the extraordinary life of Yitzhak Shamir, a ground-breaking leader who has impacted the entire Middle East region for decades. 1991 – a pivotal year that started with Iraqi missiles launched on Israel and has ended with the consequential Madrid Peace Conference. It was also the last year Yitzhak...
Eleanor Of Illinois Eleanor OF ILLINOIS is the most ambitious piece from BOUNTY, my film series exploring the political and psychological complexities of American Jewish wealth. For this piece, I spent over a year culling and editing dialogue from Katharine Hepburn’s performance in The Lion In Winter to craft the monologue of a contemporary, Midwestern, disappointed Jewish mother...
Shtetlers Shtetlers tells the secret story of small Jewish towns in the former Soviet Union. These towns, or shtetls as they were called, were once home to the largest Jewish population in the world. Only a few survived the Holocaust, and those that did were all located in the territory of the modern Ukraine and Moldova....