2019 Filmmaker In Residence
ONE FAMILY is about the wildly divergent views on Israel that exist within the filmmaker's own Jewish family. A hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, it is a meditation on the meaning of home and belonging. The film begins with a scripted, fictionalized flashback to Sari's start as a filmmaker: she is given a camera for her 13th birthday and begins to document her family, her home, and particularly her father, whose unconventional views on Israel are the inspiration for the story. As the years progress and Sari continues to film her world, we encounter relatives, neighbors and friends, whose beliefs on religion, Zionism, class and cultural affiliation inform her own questions about the nature of belonging.
Sari Gilman is an award-winning filmmaker with 20 years of experience. Her directorial debut, Kings Point (2012) was nominated for an Academy Award, won prizes at film festivals nation-wide, and aired on HBO. Most recently, Sari co-directed and edited the Netflix original Saving Capitalism, about Robert Reich. She was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for her work on Rory Kennedy's Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, and the first feature documentary she cut was Judith Helfand's Blue Vinyl, which also aired on HBO and premiered at Sundance. She wrote and edited Trapped, which premiered at Sundance, had a theatrical release in March of 2016 and aired on PBS' Independent Lens. Sari is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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