Kaddish

A sensitive exploration of how survivors pass on their experiences and how children internalize them. Director Brand films the Klein family over a five-year period, documenting the relationship between Zoltan, a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust, and his thoughtful, sometimes outrageous, but always articulate and engaging son, Yossi. 1984 New York Film Festival.

Filmmaker Steve Brand is a producer and chief film editor for ABC's newsmagazine "20/20." During his career, the projucer/director has written and directed for the Emmy Award-winning children's series, "Big Blue Marble." Mr. Brand has also edited for television programs including ABC's "Closeup," NBC's "White Paper," and ABC's "Wide World of Sports." He has co-produced and edited films for the La Mama Theatre presentation of "C.O.R.F.A.X. (Don't Ask)," directed by Wilfred Leach and the Phoenix Theatre revival of "Boy Meets Girl," directed by John Lithgow. Mr. Brand is a graduate of New York University Institutute of Film and Television. At N.Y.U., he wrote, produced and directed, "About That Time," which won First Prize a at the Balimore FIlm Festival. A native New Yorker, Mr. brand is the son of Viennese Jews who escaped from Austria in 1939. He grew up on Manhatten's upper West Side and attended the Bronx High School of Science where he studied drama. "Kaddish" is the culmination of seven years of intense filmmaking for the producer/director.