The inaugural slate of JFI Grants awarded $75,000 in 2020. The panelists for the 2020 grants cycle were Claire Aguilar, Alan Berliner, Shawn Snyder, and Ferne Pearlstein.
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story) tells the story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney.
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Irmi Selver was born into a comfortable Jewish family in Germany, in 1906, and passed in 2004, in New York City, at the age of 97. Susan Fanshel and Veronica Selver tell Irmi’s story in their sweet, engaging, and fascinating documentary, "Irmi."
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A middle aged Hasidic bookbinder searching for binding materials stumbles across an ad offering 'binding lessons for submissive women,' which he answers, becoming entangled in an online BDSM relationship that threatens to unravel his quiet life.
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In 1940, Jewish refugees who had fled to the United Kingdom were sent to work in prison camps in Canada. Through a large archive of never-released audio interviews, "Those Who Heard and Those Who Saw" considers how their experiences connect to those of contemporary Syrian refugees in Canada.
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An innovative, cinematic exploration of acting as a form of survival, through the life and work of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, controversial stage and screen director. A journey of an enigmatic, censored artist, The Wild One explores the importance of his legacy and questions how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.
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Pastors encourage an impoverished Kentucky community, “The forgotten people of America,” to donate to Israel in anticipation of Jesus’s impending return. The film exposes the controversial bond between Evangelicals and Jews in a story of faith, power, and money, revealing how Trump’s America is led by an End-Times apocalyptic countdown.
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