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...
Sofa So Good In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking for a sofa. Starring NYC comedians, alongside established actor Hiam Abbass, this is a funny-touching story about holding on and letting go.
Ida’s dance club The film is great for the Corona -days, for senior citizens all over the world that will enjoy a film that will lift their spirits. Once a year in Ida’s club, a ballroom dancing competition takes place. All the competitors are way past retirement age, but that doesn’t stop them from dancing and singing, to...
Claire Klein Osipov – Life Sung Yiddishly In her own words, Claire Klein Osipov, one of Canada’s foremost singers of Yiddish song, presents her six-decade journey as a performer from her early days in Toronto to her later days in Vancouver in community, theatrical and televisual venues.
And the alley she whitewashed in light blue At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, Architect/Director Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Kabbala holy city of Tsefat. A journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic/Buddhist/scientific Point of View to a discovery of profound universal insights of: What is their...
Big Sonia For years, Sonia Warshawski (92) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop (in a...
The Euphoria of Being Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all alone, 49 members of her family were murdered, including her mother, her father and her little sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to participate in a dance-theatre performance about her life. Director Réka Szabo imagines...