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Israel Film Festival Review: This Is Sodom
18, May 2011By Saul Sudin The Israeli film “This is Sodom†(Zohi Sdom) is a spinoff of the popular comedy television series “Wonderful Country” (Eretz Nehederet), a sort of Israeli Saturday Night Live. Like many feature films rooted in comedy television, it ultimately succeeds or fails based on the audience’s interest in the comedic style and approach. […]
Grants for Jewish Documentary Film
12, May 2011Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film 2011 Film Fund Application The 2011 Film Fund application is now live. View the 2011 guidelines here, and apply here. The application is due in its entirety, including all uploaded work samples, by 12:00 midnight on July 22nd. Email us with any questions, and best of luck! The 2010 […]
By Eszter Margit The opening gala of the Israel Film Festival (IFF) was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in a traditional Hollywood manner with red carpet, cocktails and posh Michal Negrin jewelry gift bags, but it was nonetheless setting up a festival that looks to break old stereotypes and present new […]
The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists in Los Angeles is accepting applications! The Fellowship supports nine artists (ages 22-38) working in visual arts, music, performing arts, film, video and animation to develop a new project exploring Jewish themes and ideas. Â We are excited to launch our first cohort in Los Angeles, based on […]
- In: Call for Entries|News
- Tags: Digital Art, Film, LA, New Media, Painting, Photography, Video Art
Tattoo Jew at the Brew House Series
18, Mar 2011By SUDINmag | Tweet Andy Abrams discusses his documentary that explores the current phenomenon of young Jews getting Jewish tattoos. Sneak preview clips will be shown of the documentary set to come out later this year. See some wonderful body art and hear the stories that inspired them. Presented by the Young Professionals Division of […]
- In: Events
- Tags: Calligraphy, Film, Illustration, Midwest US, Videos
Darren Aronofsky’s Ark Lands on the Page
8, Feb 2011Academy Award-nominated Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) has had a dream project boiling for several years now that would feature his take on Noah and the flood. There is still no word on when, if ever, the film would be made, but it has now been revealed that Aronofsky is currently producing a […]
- In: News
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Canada, Europe, Film, Illustration, Videos
PUNK JEWS presents ON THE EDGE
24, Jan 2011By Punk Jews | Tweet A celebration of the upcoming Punk Jews documentary series. Four breakthrough Jewish artists take the stage who exemplify this new movement of smashing stereotypes and breaking down boundaries. Be our guest for dancing, screenings, and raffles to help us kick off the project with an evening you won’t soon forget. […]
Jerusalem in the Future
20, Jan 2011By Matthue Roth | Tweet Jerusalem’s Association of Planning and Conservation posed the question to the world: What will Jerusalem look like in 100 years? A bunch of filmmakers, both amateur and professional, entered the Assocation’s “Jerusalem 2111″ competition. Here’s the winning entry, “Secular Quarter #3,†by David Gidali and Itay Gross. It’s bizarre and disturbing […]
By Saul Sudin | Tweet Eve Annenberg, USA, 2010; 91m The Jewish film world is starved for new ideas to emerge. Just as Ava (The film’s writer/director Eve Annenberg) is tasked with updating an early-20th Century Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a modern Yiddish-speaking audience, so too it seems that Jewish cinema […]
- In: Events|Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Film, NYC, Yiddish
By Saul Sudin | Tweet Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon, Austria/Germany, 2010; 97m Inexplicably the opening night film of this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, Mahler on the Couch contains no Jewish content whatsoever beyond the tangential fact that its main character was in fact born Jewish and discarded his religion, something not even […]
- In: Events|Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Art History, Film, NYC