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The Jewish Film Institute (JFI) took their mission of inspiring communities to expand their understanding of Jewish experience through film, media and dialogue to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with tremendous success. A packed room at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah listened in as Tyrnauer and Libresco discussed the legacy and life of Roy Cohn, and his timeliness in the current political climate.
The Jewish Film Institute’s Next Wave initiative, which presents innovative Jewish media for young adults in the Bay Area, will screen a 35mm print of the 1957 classic A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. The program is being framed as “the movie that predicted Trump” and will be hosted by influential blogger/mayoral candidate Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart), who will moderate a post-film panel on the media’s making of political celebrity with San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and Academy Award- nominated, Bay Area filmmaker Rick Goldsmith.
The Jewish Film Institute has announced the next installment in its popular “Talk Amongst Yourselves” series, a multimedia program that will highlight the stories of young refugees from around the world through self-made films, slideshows and interactions that detail their prized possessions, in collaboration with Citizen Film, The Magnes Collection for Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.