In New York for the first-ever Mexican Jewish Film Festival, Mexican Jewish filmmaker Isaac Ezban joins Eric Goldman to discuss the festival, his latest film, Evil Eye, and the importance of Mexican Jewry within the Mexican filmmaking community.
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Eric is joined by Israeli director Orit Fouks Rotem and actress Dana Ivgy to discuss Cinema Sabaya, their award-winning film about a group of Arab and Jewish women who attend a documentary workshop and learn to challenge their preconceived beliefs and come together as mothers, wives, and women through filmmaking.
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Eric is joined by Sandra Schulberg, producer of “Filmmakers for the Prosecution,” a riveting documentary adapted from Schulberg’s eponymous monograph which retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Eric Goldman is joined by Dana Modan, creator, writer and starring actress of Significant Other, the award-winning, sophisticated, romantic comedic drama series set in Tel Aviv, Israel
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Director Alon Schwarz discusses “Tantura,” his documentary that investigates controversial events at the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948, where survivors claimed to witness a massacre of civilians by Israeli troops
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Director Julia Mintz discusses the courageous Jewish fighters celebrated in Four Winters, her film that shatters the myth of Jewish passivity as it documents the bravery and leadership of the Partisans and the ways in which Jews resisted the Nazis
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Eric Goldman is joined by Sarah Botstein and Lynn Novick, co-directors of the Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust.
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Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine discuss Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, their documentary that explores the life and career of Jewish singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn.
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Lebanese-American writer/director Oualid Mouaness joins Eric Goldman to discuss his award-winning film “1982,”a harrowing portrait of one of the most cataclysmic moments in Lebanon’s history told through the lens of a child and his vibrant imagination
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Actor Meir Gerner discusses his son Oren Gerner’s movie “Africa,” a docu-fictional drama based on the real-life experiences of family and friends in the Israeli community settlement of Nirit, and centered on his aging father’s struggle to find meaning.
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