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FEBRUARY 5 – 16 2014 Wagner Wealth Management would like to thank MACC and the JCC for the invaluable work they do for the community
“We wake up every day with the goal of helping our clients navigate the chaos of their financial lives.” – Gary Wagner, Wagner Wealth Management
Wagner Wealth Management, LLC | 210 University Boulevard, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80206 | Tel: 303-394-9600 | www.wagnerwealth.com 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FEBRUARY 5—16, 2014 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 5:30 p.m. Reception Honoring Udi Baron and Family 1:30 p.m. Hanna’s Journey 7 p.m. Program and screening of The Jewish Cardinal 5:30 p.m. Wherever You Go followed by Aya 7:30 p.m. The Third Half THURSDAY, FEB. 6 5:30 p.m. Closed Season THURSDAY, FEB. 13 8 p.m. Hunting Elephants 5:30 p.m. Reporting on the Times followed by Before the Revolution S
SATURDAY, FEB. 8 7:30 p.m. Aftermath C 6:30 p.m. Defiant Requiem 9 p.m. Bethlehem SATURDAY, FEB. 15 H
6:30 p.m. The Other Son E SUNDAY, FEB. 9 9 p.m. Altina D 10:30 a.m. Cupcakes Dessert Reception Following the Film
12:45 p.m. The ZigZag Kid U 3 p.m. My German Friend SUNDAY, FEB. 16 5:30 p.m. The Wonders 10:30 a.m. Putzel L
8:15 p.m. Eagles 12:45 p.m. Sukkah City E 3 p.m. Dancing in Jaffa MONDAY, FEB. 10 5:30 p.m. White Panther 5:30 p.m. The Jewish Cardinal (Second showing) 8 p.m. Out In the Dark 8 p.m. In The Shadow Box Office Hours, M-F, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. TUESDAY, FEB. 11 All seating is reserved. Please view the seating chart online at 5:30 p.m. Special Interview www.maccjcc.org/film to select your seats when you purchase your 7:30 p.m. When Pigs Have Wings tickets. Our seating policy is available on page 32. Box Office (303) 316-6360 • www.maccjcc.org/film Denver Jewish Film Festival, Volume 18, 2013 • This program is published annually by MACC at the JCC, 350 S. Dahlia St. Denver, CO 80246 2 DONOR PACKAGE Individual Film Tickets $11/Adults; $10/Student & Senior Friends of Udi Baron and Family, $750 includes: • On Screen Donor recognition in honor of Udi Baron (pending date All seating is reserved. See seating policy page 32. of gift) • Two Opening Night tickets, two Grand Finale tickets, one 10-pack* *Ticket reservations must be made online or through the box office
g (Donors may forgo this benefit for the full $750 donation to be r to guarantee a seat for the films that you wish to attend using the o . tax deductible.) Festival Pass or 10-Pack. Make your reservations early to assure the c c
j best seat selection. c
c TICKETS AND PACKAGES a FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION COMMITTEE
m Duo Pass, $475 includes: ($542 total value) . Sharon Haber Julie Schwarz Erica Singer w • Two Opening Night tickets w • Two Grand Finale tickets Festival Co-Chair Festival Co-Chair Festival Co-Chair w
• • One Festival Pass* Mark Boscoe Art Kleinstein
0 Vicki Dansky Susan Mathews
6 Marcia Karshmer Scott Robinson 3 Producers Pass, $325 includes: ($356 total value) 6 - • One Opening Night ticket 6 1 • One Grand Finale ticket Tickets may be purchased at the MACC Box Office, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.- 3 5 p.m. and one hour before all screenings. Tickets may also be ) • One Festival Pass* 3 purchased via phone, (303) 316-6360 (during box office hours: 0
3 Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.), or website, www.maccjcc.org/film (24/7). ( Opening Night Gala: $150 per person
Grand Finale: $36/Adult; $30/Student & Senior SPECIAL THANKS TO: Etai Baron Joanne Kleinstein Festival Pass*: $170 Udi and Fern Baron Joanne Singer 25 admissions at $6.80 per ticket, transferable & shareable Ellen Beller Elaine Tinter Erez Heiman Darcey Baron Carol Wagner Evi Makovski 10 Pack*: $90 Kathy Judd Amy Snow 10 admissions at $9 per ticket, transferable & shareable 3 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL WELCOME LOVERS OF EXTRAORDINARY CINEMA!
Last year our wonderful Denver Jewish Film Festival celebrated honor local food giant Udi Baron (Udi's Handcrafted Foods; Udi’s Cafe some amazing milestones. First, we settled into our new venue - the restaurant chain) and family with the MACC Cultural Achievement fully renovated Elaine Wolf Theatre. Then we were honored to Award and screen the compelling film, The Jewish Cardinal . Join us on receive the “Best of Westword” award for “Best Film Festival.” In part Saturday, Feb. 8 for a special showing of Bethlehem , this year’s Israeli this award came because of the exceptional films that make up our entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar. It’s no surprise that this brilliant signature celebration of Jewish cinema, but we are also keenly film was nominated for 12 Ophir Awards and won six - including Best aware that much of the credit goes to our extraordinary audience. Film and Best Director. A must see. Our Grand Finale film, Altina , follows Altina Schinasi, heiress, philanthropist, bohemian artist and This year’s festival features films from over 20 different countries. the woman behind the Harlequin glasses that were all the rage in the It is a tremendous mix of heartrending narrative films, fun-filled 1930s. Join us for this committee favorite featuring Filmmaker Peter comedies and insightful documentaries. Don’t miss our journey Sanders, Altina’s grandson, who will be our honored guest. around the globe as we survey the expanse of human experience - as always through our Jewish cultural perspective. Check our schedule closely as other films will also include special guest speakers to satisfy your curiosity about those “behind the We open on a Wednesday evening and keep our expanded festival scenes” questions. with 26 total screenings this year. We continue to offer concessions in our social hall lounge for conversations between the screenings Remember, the festival does not end on closing night. Fabulous films, and don’t forget, unlike most festivals, our seating is reserved, so be speakers and experiences continue all day Sunday, February 16. sure to purchase your tickets early to get the best seat selection. We look forward to seeing you at the movies! New this year we will be offering a special Wednesday matinee, on Feb. 12 at 1:30 p.m. of the film, Hanna’s Journey . Sharon Haber Julie Schwarz Erica Singer Ely Hemnes Opening Night, Wednesday, Feb. 5, will be truly memorable as we Festival Chair Festival Chair Festival Chair Festivals Coordinator 4 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL N
O Udi Baron (and the Baron Family) I
T Who in Colorado doesn’t know Udi’s Foods? The bread, the gluten-free selections,
A the great quality. The outstanding Udi’s Cafés and Restaurants offer a warm, inviting gathering place for all. Udi Baron, founder of Udi’s Foods, and his wife, R Fern, have been huge supporters of the Denver Jewish Film Festival for the last
B five years. For this reason we have chosen Udi Baron and the Baron Family to
E receive the 2014 MACC Cultural Achievement Award.
L The Barons are truly about family first - in every phase of their lives. Udi grew
E up in the small farming community of Hayogev, Israel. Fern is a fifth generation Coloradan; she met Udi when she visited family in Israel and participated in an C Ulpan (Hebrew language school). For Udi, it was love at first sight. They are the proud parents of Etai and Robin - both of whom are integral to the business- as T OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION well as four beautiful grandchildren – Max, Levi, Tamar, and one on the way!
H An evening honoring Udi Baron and Family When Udi and Fern moved to Denver in 1980, Udi longed for the farm-fresh foods
G of his homeland. After working as CFO for a manufacturing company, Udi decid - I Wednesday, February 5, 2014 ed to leave the business world to focus on his real passion: food. And not just food, but the connection between good health and food. He opened a small N sandwich business that has since grown into six family businesses employing 5:30 p.m. Reception, Phillips Social Hall over 500 people. These include Udi’s Bread, Udi’s Catering, 10 cafés and two G national companies - Udi’s Gluten-free and Udi’s Granola.
N 7 p.m. Program & Film, Elaine Wolf Theatre, MACC In 2012, Udi sold his two national companies to Boulder Brands who now I owns the brand name “Udi’s.” In 2014, Udi Baron and family will change their
N Udi Baron, 2014 Mizel Arts and business name and are inviting customers and fans to help them rename their businesses. E Culture Center Cultural Achievement Honoree
P We are extremely proud to honor Udi, Fern and family with the 2014 MACC Cultural Achievement Award. O 5 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL O P
OPENING NIGHT FILM E The Jewish Cardinal (Le Metis De Dieu) N Director: Ilan Duran Cohen I 2012/France/90 minutes/Drama N
French with English subtitles G
A Jewish cardinal—is that possible? Well, yes and no, contends this exciting
French film based on the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926- N 2007) - son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identi -
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. I ty as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age. His parents (following reception) went to Auschwitz (where his mother perished) while Lustiger was spared G this fate having been left in the care of a non-Jewish woman in Orleans. He Also playing: H entered the priesthood and rose quickly within the ranks of the Church, ulti -
Monday, Feb. 10, 5:30 p.m. mately receiving an appointment as Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul T II. Throughout his life, Lustiger advocated for dialogue between Christians and Jews. He emphasized publicly that he personally continued to identify
Opening Night Sponsor as a Jew despite converting—and was criticized for this by both sides. When F Ellen Beller Carmelite nuns establish a convent within the forbidden walls of Auschwitz, I Lustiger finds himself a mediator between the two communities - and may be
Second Film Showing Sponsor L forced at last to choose his side. Colorado Premiere
Kathy & Arthur Judd M Second Film In-Kind Sponsor Selected Awards & Festivals Festival de Luchon (Grand Prix); Festival de Monte Carlo (Best Film); U.K. SKEA Jewish Film Festival; (Opening Film); Berlin Jewish Film Festival; Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival; Boston Jewish Film Festival
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j Closed Season (Ende Der Schonzeit) c
c Director: Franziska Schlotterer a
m 2012/Germany/100 minutes/Drama .
w German and English subtitles w w
• An unorthodox arrangement between a childless German peasant couple
0 Thursday, Feb. 6 and a Jewish war refugee leads to complications in Closed Season , a histori - 6 cal drama charged with eroticism and unforeseen plot twists. Told in a flash - 3
6 back, this is the story of Albert, a Jewish boy fleeing Nazi persecution dur -
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6 ing WWII. Traveling through the mountains of the Black Forest and unable to 1
3 cross the heavily patrolled Swiss border, Albert is given shelter by a farmer
) Fritz and his wife Emma. Working together on the farm, Albert and Fritz
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0 develop a bond and Fritz confesses to him that the couple has been unable 3
( Roberta & Mel Klein to conceive. The frustrated farmer proposes an unusual arrangement - Albert is to father a child with Emma in exchange for continued shelter and protection. A cauldron of jealousy and betrayal erupts. Frequent visits by an old family friend and Nazi party functionary add layers of suspense, leading to a very unexpected conclusion. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2012 Montreal World Film Festival (Winner); 2012 Munich Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; 2013 UK Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Shanghai International Film Festival
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Hunting Elephants (Latzud Pilm) Director: Reshef Levi 2013/Israel/107 minutes/Comedy-Crime Hebrew/English
Starring Acclaimed British Actor Patrick Stewart (X-Men, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Hunting Elephants is about a 12-year-old Israeli boy named Jonathan, who is Thursday, Feb. 6 forced to deal with two cruel twists of fate. First, his father is killed in a freak 8 p.m. accident while working at the local bank. Then, not only does the bank deny fault, they seek to repossess the boy’s home. Pushed to the brink, Jonathan is forced to find money fast, deciding ultimately that his only recourse is to Film Sponsor rob the bank that has offended him. But he needs a team. Unfortunately for Vicki & David Dansky, Jonathan, the only crew available to him are three misfit senior citizens. Essie & Jordan Perlmutter, Eliyahu, Jonathan's grandfather, and his friend Nick are former Lehi fighters who used to rob British banks to fund the organization's activities. Michael Lisa & Shell Cook, Simpson (played brilliantly by Patrick Stewart) is Jonathan’s English uncle, a Lisa & Jay Perlmutter, and depressed and eccentric actor. Together this unlikely group embarks on a Lisa & Jonathan Perlmutter journey to avenge the boy's misfortune and make their last wishes come true. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival; Vancouver Jewish Film Festival; Nominated for 7 Ophir Awards including Best Feature Film
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r Defiant Requiem o .
c Director: Doug Shultz c j
c 2012/USA, UK, Czech Republic/85 minutes/Documentary c
a English m .
w Defiant Requiem illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts w of resistance by the Jewish prisoners of the infamous Czech concentration w
• camp at Terezin. Remarkably, in spite of the harsh treatment, hunger, disease
0 Saturday, Feb. 8 and forced labor, the Jewish inmates fought back against the oppression of 6 their Nazi captors and still retained their humanity and hope. The Nazis 3
6 showed them the worst of mankind and they responded with the best of
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6 mankind: heartfelt creative expression through art and music. The leader of 1
3 this creative defiance was conductor, Rafael Schächter, who taught a choir of
) 150 prisoners the great Verdi Requiem by rote. The prisoners confronted the
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0 Nazis face to face... and sang to them what they could not say.
3 Susan & Bob Wagner ( and For over ten years Conductor Murry Sidlin dreamed of bringing the Requiem Diane & Jack Zelinger back to Terezin . Defiant Requiem shows the culmination of his dream, and brings this unknown story of the artistic uprising to life. Denver Premiere
Guest Speaker Selected Awards & Festivals Composer Murry Sidlin Palm Springs International Film Festival; 2012 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Boulder International Film Festival; 2013 San Diego Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Tel Aviv International Art Festival; 2013 Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival
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Bethlehem (Beit-Lehem) Director: Yuval Adler 2013/Israel, Belgium, Germany/99 minutes/Political Thriller Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles
Israel’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2014 Academy Awards
Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant, Sanfur. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the film is a raw portrayal of char - acters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human Saturday, Feb. 8 intelligence. 9 p.m. Sanfur is the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited him when he was just 15, and developed a very close, almost fatherly rela - Film Sponsor tionship with him. Now 17, Sanfur tries to navigate between Razi’s demands and his loyalty to his brother, living a double life and lying to both. When the Strear Family Foundation Israeli secret service discovers how deeply involved Sanfur is in his brother’s activities, Razi is faced with an impossible dilemma.
Co-written and directed by Israeli Yuval Adler and Palestinian Ali Waked, an Arab journalist who spent years in the West Bank, Bethlehem gives a portrait of the complex reality behind the news. Denver Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Venice Film Festival; 2013 Haifa Film Festival (Best Film); Toronto International Film Festival; 2013 Telluride Film Festival; The Ophir Awards (6 Wins)
10 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL g r o . c c j c c a m . Cupcakes (Bananot) w
w Director: Eytan Fox w 2013/Israel,France/90 minutes/Musical Comedy •
0 Sunday, Feb. 9 Hebrew/French/English with English subtitles 6 3
6 10:30 a.m. If you think America’s got talent, wait till you see what Israel’s got! Award- -
6 winning Filmmaker Eytan Fox ( Yossi & Jagger, Walk On Water ) returns with a 1
3 stylized, gossamer-light musical comedy about life, love and friendship.
) Film Sponsor When heartbroken Tel Aviv baker Anat gets together with her friends to 3
0 Erica Singer watch a Eurovision-style song contest, the catchy tune they write to cheer 3
( her up unexpectedly ends up as Israel’s entry for the contest! But will the good-natured friends survive the cut-throat world of the pop business? With feel-good music by Babydaddy ( Scissor Sisters ), technicolor styling à la Almodóvar and an unashamedly entertaining storyline that could have come from Friends , this hit musical comedy is the guiltiest pleasure of the year. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Cannes Film Festival; U.K. Jewish Film Festival (Closing Film); 2013 Hamburg Queer Film Festival
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The ZigZag Kid (Nono, Het Zigzag Kind) Director: Vincent Bal 2013/Netherlands, Belgium/95 minutes/Drama/Comedy Dutch/English/French with English subtitles
Starring Isabella Rossellini as Lola Ciperola
Based on the beloved novel by David Grossman, The ZigZag Kid uses wit and humor to explore the most fundamental questions of good and evil.
This witty, spirited and action-packed adventure follows Nono, a boy on the Sunday, Feb. 9 brink of his bar mitzvah who has a rich imagination and a knack for get - ting into trouble. Nono is a wide-eyed, unusually perceptive kid who wants 12:45 p.m. to be just like his dad, Jacob - the world’s best and most amazing detec - tive. After a series of incidents born of Nono's transgressive behavior, he is sent away to his uncle. However, the train ride provides an adventure of Film Sponsor its own. Nono meets his father’s arch-nemesis, notorious criminal Felix Glick, and puts his detective skills to work as he heads to the French Marsha & Gary Blum Riviera, where Felix introduces Nono to seductive nightclub chanteuse, and Lola Ciperola. As Nono begins to piece together clues that point to the true Debbie & Jim Shmerling identity of Felix and Lola, a larger truth—what really happened to his late mother, becomes evident. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Kyoto International Children’s Film Festival (Grand Prix Award); 2013 European Film Academy (Winner - Young Audience Award); 2013 ANDkids World Film Festival (Audience Award - Best Feature); 2013 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (Opening Night Film)
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j My German Friend (Mi Amigo Aléman) c
c Director and Writer: Jeanine Meerapfel a
m 2012/Germany, Argentina/100 minutes/Drama/Romance .
w Spanish/German with English subtitles w w
• In her latest feature film, Jeanine Meerapfel tells the story of deep love in a
0 Sunday, Feb. 9 time of political upheaval and historical change. Living cheek by jowl in 6 Argentina in the 1950s are Jews and Nazis, who have fled Europe and been 3
6 3 p.m. thrown together again in a foreign country. Sulamit, the daughter of German- -
6 Jewish emigrants from Germany, lives next door to Friedrich, a German boy 1
3 whose parents escaped to Argentina after the war. Sulmit and Friedrich
) Film Sponsor quickly form a strong attachment. However when Friedrich learns that his 3
0 Ellen & Scott Robinson father was a high-ranking officer in the SS, he breaks with his family and 3
( moves to Germany, becoming involved in radical politics. Sulamit follows him and romance briefly blossoms, but Friedrich’s commitment to political action leads him back to Argentina, and great danger. My German Friend is a potent examination of the bonds and divisions affecting Germans in Argentina— where both Holocaust survivors and Nazi war criminals make their home. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals UK Jewish Film Festival; Toronto Jewish Film Festival; ICA Boston 2013 National Center for Jewish Films; Audi Festival of German Films in Australia
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The Wonders (Pla ot) ́ Director: Avi Nesher 2013/Israel/112 minutes/Mystery/Romance/Comedy Hebrew with English subtitles
Avi Nesher (director, The Matchmaker , DJFF 2011) describes his new film The Sunday, Feb. 9 Wonders as “Lewis and Carroll meet Carol Reed.” Indeed, he successfully 5:30 p.m. weaves together strands of mystery, religion, comedy and romance to create a unique and compelling feature. The story focuses on Arnav, a graffiti artist and bartender, who lives near the Old City of Jerusalem. When Arnav sees a Film Sponsor heavily cloaked stranger forced into an abandoned apartment by three bearded men, he soon becomes involved with a hard-boiled investigator, a Julie & Saul Schwarz seductive redhead, and the mysterious captive himself. This captive, Rabbi Knafo, leads a cult of devoted followers who believe he is a modern prophet with the ability to foretell the future. Arnav, who can resist anything but temptation, finds himself fascinated by Knafo and by the conundrums that surround him. Arnav is drawn into a world where fact and fiction, reality and imagination mingle freely: down the Rabbit Hole that is Jerusalem. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals Toronto International Film Festival
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r Eagles (Orlovi) o .
c Director: Dror Sabo c j
c 2012/Israel/89 minutes/Drama c
a Hebrew with English subtitles m .
w Now in their 80s, best friends Ephraim and Moshka are disillusioned with the w world. Veterans of the 1948 War of Independence, they spend their days talk - w
• ing about the Israel that might have been and expressing their frustration at
0 Sunday, Feb. 9 not just being disrespected, but completely ignored. 6
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6 Everything changes when the two witness a hit-and-run accident caused by a -
6 young man in front of a café. Ephraim recognizes the victim as his old friend 1
3 Film Sponsor Tamara and long buried secrets are awoken. A disgust for the young man’s ) lack of concern fueled by their simmering anger result in the two veterans 3 Sharon & Jeff Haber
0 setting out to teach the younger generation a lesson about moral values and 3
( social responsibilities. Part romantic thriller, part vigilante call to action, old rivalries between Ephraim and Moshka rise to the surface along with a secret that threatens their long friendship. Eagles is an anti-war piece incorporating commentary on contemporary values and flashbacks to the idealism of 1948. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2012 Toronto International Film Festival; 2013 Belgrade International Film Festival (Best Film); 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival; 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival
15 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL In the Shadow (Ve Stinu) Director and Writer: David Ondricek 2012/Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland/106 minutes/Film Noir, Thriller Drama Czech/Polish/German with English subtitles
Czech Republic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards
Set in the former Czechoslovakia amid dramatic events of the 1950s, this sus - penseful crime drama follows honest police captain Hakl and his investiga - tion of a seemingly mundane robbery at a goldsmith's shop. On the orders of State Security, Hakl's investigation is taken over by Major Zenke, an East Monday, Feb. 10 German specialist, who has been ordered to "prove" the dubious claim that the gold was stolen by the Jewish community to finance Zionist terrorism. 8 p.m. However, the experienced Hakl's instincts put him on the path of an alto - gether different story, one that runs counter to that of his state-sanctioned Film Sponsor superiors. Can just one man stand up to the forces of an increasingly oppres - Krista & Mark Boscoe sive state? and Director David Ondricek based his screenplay on an idea first developed by Ryley Carlock & Applewhite his father, the great cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek ( Amadeus, Ragtime ), and the parallels to the infamous Slánský show trials. In the Shadow intrigu - ingly grafts a film noir sensibility to a time of great political tension in the former Czechoslovakia to create an absorbing, resonant thriller.
Selected Films & Festivals 2013 Czech Lions Film Festival (9 awards); 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival (Director to Watch); Phoenix Film Festival (Coppor Wing Award); San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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m Special Interview .
w (Be ayon Meyuchald –HaSeret) w ́ w Director and Writer: Nitzan Rozenberg • 2012/Israel,USA/55 minutes/Documentary 0 Tuesday, Feb. 11
6 Hebrew/English with English subtitles 3
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6 Special Interview follows Israeli reporters Efrat Dotan, who has Down’s 1
3 Syndrome, and Matanel Bitton, who has developmental disabilities. Trained by
) Film Sponsor the Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel (SHAL - 3
0 Anna & John J. VA), the young journalists interview many prominent personalities, including 3
( Israel’s President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their Sie Foundation dream, however, is to interview American President Barak Obama. Stereotypes are dispelled as these two earnest reporters share their eloquence, charisma, and disarming conversational style with audiences. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 WorldFest Houston (Silver Remi Award); 2013 Calgary Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Zagreb Jewish Film Festival, Festival of Tolerance - Croatia; 2013 Detective International Film Festival, Moscow; 2013 Sole e Luna International Film Festival, Italy; Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival
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When Pigs Have Wings (Le Cochon de Gaza) Director: Sylvain Estibal 2011/France,Germany,Belgium/98 minutes/Comedy English/Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles
The fates of a pot-bellied pig and a down-on-his-luck Palestinian fisherman become literally entangled in When Pigs Have Wings , a clever comedic para - Tuesday, February 11 ble of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
7:30 p.m. Following a storm at sea, the hapless Jafaar (a humanistic performance by Sasson Gabay) finds a 100-pound pig in his fishing net. His initial efforts to dispose of the oversized swine – first to a United Nations official, then to a Film Sponsor Russian-Jewish farm worker– only complicate his life, while providing plenty Emily Roet Realty & the Law Office of fodder for sight gags. A dark comedic comic tone emerges later when the of Michael Goodman increasingly desperate Jafaar steps into a political and religious minefield, running afoul of local Islamist militants.
A former reporter who covered the Middle East, first-time director Sylvain Estibal draws on his keen eye for the region’s absurdities and class dispari - ties, skewering both sides of the conflict equally. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2012 Cesar (Best First Film); 2013 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival; Tokyo International Film Festival (Audience Award)
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r Hanna’s Journey (Hannas Reise) o .
c Director: Julia Von Heinz c j
c 2013/Germany,Israel/99 minutes/Romance c
a Hebrew/German/English m .
w For Hanna, the Holocaust is history, no longer relevant outside the classroom. w Her reasons for coming to Israel are selfish: a few months "doing something w • Wednesday, Feb. 12 good for the Jews" would look great on her resume and help her career. Eager
0 to prove herself, she is initially taken aback by the attitude of Itay, the Israeli
6 social worker at her volunteer placement. He teases Hanna with Holocaust 3 1:30 p.m.
6 jokes and cynical comments about German history while openly flirting with -
6 New Weekday Matinee! her. Gradually Hanna develops an interest in both German history and the his - 1
3 tory of her own family, in part, because of her volunteer work with an elderly
) holocaust survivor. She also warms up to the man who first set her onto this 3 Film Sponsor
0 path of self-discovery. 3
( Sandy Wolf and Priscella Press Director Julia Von Heinz explains that the film analyses “the special relation - ship between third-generation Germans and Israelis since the Holocaust. Both are obsessed with the Holocaust since it has so essentially influenced their identities and, more than 60 years later, this shared history connects them in a way that also brings a certain closeness.” Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Montreal World Film Festival (World Premiere); 2013 Haifa International Film Festival; Internationale Hofer Filmtage
19 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Wherever You Go (Lean Sneat Nosaat) Director and Writer: Rony Sasson Angel 2011/Israel/40 minutes/Short/Thriller Hebrew/Arabic with English Subtitles
Zuhara is on her way to her younger sister’s wedding, when she picks up Neriman, a young Bedouin hitchhiker escaping from an arranged marriage. As she unintentionally becomes an accomplice in Neriman’s struggle, Zuhara must confront her conflicted feelings toward her estrangement from her own family. A deeply-poignant and visually-striking road movie. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals Wednesday, Feb. 12 Boston Jewish Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 5:30 p.m. Aya Director: Oded Binnum and Mihal Breziz Film Sponsor 2012/Israel,France/40 minutes/Short/Drama Celeste & Jack Grynberg English This gorgeous and poignant drama about two strangers who meet by a chance encounter at the airport features sublime performances by Sarah Adler and Danish star Ulrich Thomsen (star of the Oscar ® winning film In a Better World ). When Thomas Overby mistakenly believes Aya is his assigned driver, she spon - taneously decides to go along with the charade and drives him to Jerusalem. A stiff and guarded pianist, Overby is intrigued by the impulsive though melan - choly Aya. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals Winner Best Short Feature at the Ophir Awards (Israel’s Oscars) 20 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The Third Half (Treto Poluvreme) Director: Darko Mitrevski g r
o 2012/ Republic of Macedonia, Czech Republic, .
c USA/113 minutes/Drama c j
c Macedonia/German/Ladina/Bulgarian/English/Serbian c a
m Inspired by real events, The Third Half is a moving story of love and loyalty dur - .
w ing wartime explored through the prism of a country’s passion for soccer. In w Macedonia, in 1941, Kosta, a cocky soccer player falls in love with Rebecca, a w beautiful Jewish woman from a wealthy family. When they decide to marry, • her father disowns her. 0 Wednesday, Feb. 12 6
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6 As war rages on their borders, most Macedonians remain cocooned in a world - of patriotic pleasures. Everyone longs for Kosta’s team, Macedonia FC, to catch 6 1 a winning streak. To facilitate their chances, their manager hires the leg - 3 Film Sponsor
) endary German-Jewish striker-turned-coach Rudolph Spitz. But when the 3 Joanne & Art Kleinstein Nazis occupy Macedonia and start deporting Jews, Kosta and his teammates 0
3 must summon the courage to stand up for what’s right. Director Mitrevski ( notes, “I was seeking witnesses of various historic periods for a TV series when someone mentioned Mrs. Neta Koen. I found myself in her apartment lis - tening to her stories: She was one of the few Holocaust survivors in Macedonia, a country in which 98% of the Jewish population was brutally wiped out during the WWII.” Her story inspired this movie. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals Macedonia’s submission for Best Foreign Film 95th Academy Awards; Moscow Film Festival; 9th European Film Festival (Audience Award)
21 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Reporting on the Times: The New York Times and the Holocaust Director: Emily L. Harrold 2012/USA/18 minutes/Documentary Short English
A fascinating short subject documentary by student filmmaker Emily Harrold, the film explores how the New York Times handled reports of the Holocaust during World War II. It also investigates why The Times , a Jewish owned newspa - per, buried more than one thousand articles in its back pages. Was it simply an oversight? Or did the publishers and editors fear an American anti-Semitic back - lash? Through interviews and testimony of a Holocaust survivor, historians, and New York Times journalists, Reporting on The Times encourages audiences to Thursday, Feb. 13 re-evaluate America’s place as ‘The Great Liberator.’ Denver Premiere Before the Revolution (Lifnei Ha maatcha) 5:30 p.m. ́ Director: Dan Shadur; Producer: Barak Heymann 2013/Israel/60 minutes/Documentary Film Sponsor Hebrew/English Marilyn & Dr. Jerry Kopelman This documentary thriller describes the last days of the luxury and privilege enjoyed by the Israeli community in Tehran on the eve of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The director, Dan Shadur, uses rare archival footage, family movies and interviews with former diplomats, Mossad agents and businessmen, to reveal the Persian paradise as a breeding ground for corrupt business deals in the thriving oil and weapons trades. This deeply personal film challenges the ‘selec - tive amnesia’ of this clandestine chapter in Israeli/Iranian relations and tells a story of unprecedented social and religious upheaval. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Doc Aviv Film Festival; 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival 22 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Aftermath (Poklosie)
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a A suspenseful story about Franek Kalina, a Polish man living in the US who m
. begrudgingly returns to his hometown in the rural Polish countryside where
w his brother Jozef maintains their family farm. Franek discovers that Jozek has w been ostracized from the community and constantly receives abuse and w
• threats from the local population. In addition, Jozek has a strange, newfound
0 Thursday, Feb. 13 fascination with the village's former Jewish inhabitants. As Franek and Jozek
6 struggle to rebuild their relationship, they are drawn into a gothic tale of 3 7:30 p.m.
6 intrigue. The two brothers eventually uncover a dark secret that forces them -
6 to confront the history of their family and their hometown. 1
3 Film Sponsor ) Upon its release in Poland, Aftermath received acclaim and also generated 3 Carol & Irwin Wagner
0 intense controversy. Polish nationals have accused the film of being anti- 3
( Polish propaganda, as well as a distortion of a sensitive piece of Polish histo - ry, leading the film to be banned in some Polish cinemas. The Hollywood Reporter called Aftermath “…the most controversial film in Polish history.” Denver Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival (Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award); Polish Film Academy- Eagle Awards; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; 2012 Gdynia Film Festival (Critics Prize); 2013 Boston Jewish Film Festival; UK Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Toronto Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival 23 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The Other Son (L’Fil de L'Autre) Saturday, Feb. 15 Director: Lorraine Levy 2012/France,Israel/105 minutes/Drama 6:30 p.m. French/Arabic/Hebrew
Film Sponsor How would one go about approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that transcends the history and politics and delves deeper into our shared Marcia & Bernie Karshmer humanity? Not an easy task, but one that writer-director Lorraine Levy has achieved in the remarkable film, The Other Son . The parents of Israeli teen Joseph discover that he is not their biological son and was switched at birth with the child of a Palestinian family. The lives of both families are shattered by this revelation and they are forced to reconsider their identities, values and beliefs.
Selected Awards & Festivals 2012 Tribeca Film Festival; Tokyo Film Festival (Grand Prize and Best Director), St. Louis Jewish Film Festival; Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 24 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL E
L GRAND FINALE
A Altina
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Saturday, Feb. 15 Seductive but not beautiful, Altina Schinasi (1907—1999) cruised through life as D 9 p.m. an unbridled heiress in search of a cause. Born in a New York mansion to a Sephardic Jew, who became a tobacco tycoon, her guarded childhood did not N Followed by Grand Finale Reception predict the flagrant audacity of her sexually liberated art or the uninhibited imagination of her Harlequin eyeglasses that launched a fashion craze in the A 1930s. Free of academicism and confident in her keen intellect, she crafted Film Sponsor R fragments of her life into sculptures that define her surreal and original Susan Mathews together with Michael Berman, world. Her whimsical art was also anchored in social issues; her film on G Kelly Birner, Ron Feldman, Wendy Handler, George Grosz took on the Holocaust, earning her an Oscar nomination; she befriended Martin Luther King and supported his struggle; and during the Red Janet Robinson, Lisa Wicklund, Ron Martinez, Scare she did not hesitate to hide one of the Hollywood Ten. “She had many and Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty different lives; she was always reinventing herself,” says Peter Sanders, direc - tor and grandson of Altina. Colorado Premiere
Guest Speaker Selected Awards & Festivals Director Peter Sanders 2013 Toronto Jewish Film Festival (David A. Stein Award for Best Director and Best Documentary Film); 2012 Sarasota Film Festival
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Putzel Director: Jason Chaet 2012/USA/88 minutes/Comedy/Romance English
For some, life is an adventure filled with opportunities to excel and places to explore. For Walter Himmelstein (Jake Carpenter) a young man, endearingly Sunday, Feb. 16 known as Putzel, life literally doesn’t go beyond his family’s fish store and his 10:30 a.m. community on the upper west side of Manhattan. In this heartwarming com - edy, Walter's aspirations of taking over his uncle’s smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally (Melanie Lynskey of TV’s Two and a Half Film Sponsor Men”), who becomes romantically involved with his about-to-retire married Joan & Abbott Wallis, uncle (his wife Gilda is played by “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Susie Essman). While Walter tries to thwart their romance in order to ensure his taking over Bold Earth Teen Adventures the business, he finds his circumscribed life thrown off kilter, and, after years of being undermined by his family and friends, he finally starts to realize his full potential. With Sally’s help, Walter confronts his fears and proves he is more than a Putzel. You’ll never see smoked lox the same way again! Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals Palm Springs International Film Festival; Phoenix Film Festival (Best Picture); Prescott Film Festival (Best Screenplay); Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival; Woodstock Film Festival 26 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL g r o . c c j c c a m .
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w Director: Jason Hutt • 2013/USA/67 minutes/Documentary
0 Sunday, Feb. 16
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3 12:45 p.m. 6 - Sukkah City chronicles the 2010 design competition and exhibition conceived 6 1 of by bestselling author Joshua Foer that explored the creative potential of 3 Film Sponsor
) the ancient Jewish sukkah and culminated in the construction of 12 radically 3 Paul Gillis designed sukkahs that were shown to the public in New York City’s Union 0
3 Square. The film goes behind the scenes with the Jury that narrows the field ( from 600 submissions, the construction, and the actual exhibition to provide an entertaining and inspiring portrait of the project’s visionary architects, planners and structures and celebrates an exciting, singular moment in the American Jewish experience. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Boston Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Jerusalem International Film Festival (World Premiere); 2013 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (US Premiere); 2013 Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
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Dancing in Jaffa Director: Hilla Medalia 2013/USA/Israel, Palestine/84 minutes/Documentary English/Arabic/Hebrew
After decades abroad, renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine returns to Sunday, Feb. 16 his hometown of Jaffa, Israel, nostalgic for the streets of his youth but nerv - 3 p.m. ous and dismayed by the strong current of racial animosity that now serves as the norm. Fueled by his belief in dancing’s power to build self-esteem and social awareness, Dulaine brings his popular Dancing Classrooms program to Film Sponsor three diverse, Jaffa-based schools where he teaches ballroom basics to the Dr. Hilary & Rabbi Eliot Baskin, ethnically mixed population of children. Dulaine selects the most focused dancers to train for a citywide competition, pairing Palestinians with Jews, All About Braces which tests the beliefs of the children and, more pointedly, those of their par - ents. As Dulaine’s passion for dance and no-nonsense style of teaching rubs off on the reluctant children, the competition offers the perfect window into their lives. Dancing in Jaffa is a sweet and incredibly moving tale filled with moments of truth, poignancy and humor, offering a glimmer of hope in the intractable conflict. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (Official Selection); U.K. Jewish Film Festival 28 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL g r o .
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c Director: Danni Reisfeld c
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w The deceptively peaceful Sea of Galilee is the backdrop for this story of vio - w
• lence, hope and the rebirth of a young man and of the people who love him.
0 Sunday, Feb. 16
6 In the 1990s a million Jews from the USSR arrived in Israel. These immigrants 3 5:30 p.m.
6 dreamed of a better future but were often shunned by the local population -
6 who were suspicious of the newcomers. While many of the immigrants 1
3 Film Sponsor embraced the Israeli lifestyle, others became angry and shut themselves off ) in self-made Russian ghettoes. White Panther is the story of Alex, a young 3 Ricky & Don Safer
0 Russian immigrant, whose family falls apart after his father dies while serv -
3 and ( ing in the Israeli army. In retaliation Alex joins a Russian gang led by his older Joyce & Gary Pashel brother. An unexpected meeting with David, a religious Moroccan Jew, gives Alex a chance to pursue his longtime dream of becoming a boxer like his father. Alex finds himself torn between his two father figures – the violent older brother and the new Jewish trainer –until he finds out the truth about those he so admires. Colorado Premiere
Selected Awards & Festivals 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival (Feature Competition); 2013 Montreal World Film Festival; Nominated for a 2013 Ophir Award 29 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Out In The Dark (Alata/Dhalam) Director and Guest Speaker: Michael Mayer 2013/Israel,USA,Palestine/96 minutes/Drama/Romance Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles
When sweet and handsome grad student Nimr sneaks away from his Palestinian family one night to dance with friends in a Tel Aviv gay nightclub, he knows he is courting danger on both sides of the separation barrier. His Sunday, Feb. 16 sexuality must be kept hidden at home, while his nationality makes him ille - 8 p.m. gal in Israel. The stakes get perilously higher when he meets Roy, a charm - ing Tel Aviv lawyer, and they begin a secret, ardent cross-border affair. First- time feature director Michael Mayer sets his taut drama of dangerous love Film Sponsor against a backdrop of increasingly hostile relations between Israelis and Dan Recht & Rick Kornfeld, Palestinians, but the politics never upstage the heartfelt human story of young lovers (echoes of Romeo and Juliet) trying to forge a connection Recht Kornfeld, P.C. against all odds. As the tension mounts, both men must confront what they are willing to sacrifice in order to overcome their differences. In politics as Guest Speaker well as in love, this is the burning, unresolved question. Colorado Premiere Director Michael Mayer Selected Awards & Festivals 2012 Toronto International Film Festival (Best Picture); 2012 Haifa International Film Festival (Best Picture); 2013 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Winner); 2013 Pittsburg Jewish Film Festival (Audience Award); 2013 Berlin Jewish Film Festival (Audience Award); 2013 Toronto LGBT Film Festival (Special Jury Award); Chicago International Film Festival
30 The 18th Denver Jewish Film Festival is made possible through the generosity of the following corporate and non-profit sponsors: g r o
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Audience Choice Award Sponsored by Hyla and Howard Greinetz
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18th Denver Jewish Film Festival Seating Policy All Seating is Reserved
Unlike most film events, our festival has a reserved seating policy which works much like any live theatre or concert event, where each patron has an individually numbered seat for each film. This means that if patrons are seeing multiple films, they may need to move seats after each show - ing. Patrons that purchase tickets in advance may request the same seat (if it is available), but they will need to exit the theatre and present their ticket separately for each film.
Reserve a specific seat each time you purchase a ticket. Visit the website at www.maccjcc.org/film to view a chart of available seating for each film.
Doors will open 20 minutes prior to each screening. Please come early so you can locate your seat number and row.
Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers.
The theatre will be emptied after each screening in order to clean and con - duct a sound check for the next film. Please help us keep the festival run - ning on time by leaving the theatre promptly.
Handicapped seating is available. To reserve handicapped seating please contact the box office at (303) 316-6360.
Free parking for the DJFF is available in other MACC/JCC lots to the south and west of our venue; street parking on Dahlia, Alameda and the neigh - borhood to the north of our location is also free.
32 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 18th DJFF PRINT SOURCES
The Jewish Cardinal My German Friend The Third Half Putzel Film Movement Corinth Films The Little Film Company Stouthearted Films Rebeca Conget [email protected] Riaya Aboulela Rick Moore [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] g
r The Wonders o . Closed Season IsraeliFilms Reporting on the Times: The New Sukkah City c
c Atlas International [email protected] York Times and The Holocaust
j Oxbow Lake Films
c [email protected] LynnWood Pictures c In The Shadow Jason Hutt
a Emily Harrold Hunting Elephants IsraeliFilms [email protected] m [email protected] . Bleiberg Entertainment [email protected] w Dancing In Jaffa
w [email protected] Before the Revolution IFC Films
w Special Interview Heymann Brothers Films Liz Horowitz • Defiant Requiem Ruth Diskin Films [email protected] [email protected] 0 The Brakefield Company [email protected] 6 Shawna L. Brakefield Aftermath 3 When Pigs Have Wings White Panther 6 [email protected] Menemsha Films - Eric Di Bernardo IsraeliFilms
6 Neil Friedman 1 Bethlehem [email protected] [email protected]
) Adopt Films, LLC Rialto Pictures Out In The Dark 3 Jeff Lipsky The Other Son 0 Hanna’s Journey M-Appeal
3 [email protected] Cohen Media Group
( [email protected] Media Luna New Films Bill Thompson Cupcakes Ida Martins [email protected] Films Distribution [email protected] Sanam Madjedi Altina [email protected] Wherever You Go Eight Twelve Productions 7th Art Releasing Peter Sanders The ZigZag Kid [email protected] petersanders@eighttwelve Menemsha Films productions.com Neil Friedman Aya [email protected] IsraeliFilms [email protected] 33 2014 DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 18 th DENVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL SPONSOR FILM BUFFS: Ellen & Scott Robinson Wagner Wealth Management Emily Roet Realty & the Law Office of Michael MorEvents (Betsy and Gareth Heyman) Goodman EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Anna & John J. Sie Foundation Udi’s Foods Julie & Saul Schwarz Celeste & Jack Grynberg PRODUCER Erica Singer Joanne Singer Susan & Bob Wagner Diane & Jack Zelinger OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR Carol & Irwin Wagner Ellen Beller Joanne & Art Kleinstein Joyce & Gary Pashel GRAND FINALE SPONSOR Marilyn & Dr. Jerry Kopelman Susan Mathews, Michael Berman, Priscella Press Kelly Birner, Ron Feldman, Debbie & Jim Shmerling Wendy Handler, Janet Robinson, Marcia & Bernie Karshmer Lisa Wicklund, Ron Martinez and Lynda Goldstein Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty Margery Goldman Marsha & Gary Blum MOVIE STARS: Dr. Hilary & Rabbi Eliot Baskin, All About Braces Vicki & David Dansky, Jordon & Essie Dan Recht & Rick Kornfeld, Recht Kornfeld, P.C. Perlmutter, Lisa & Shell Cook, Lisa & Jay Paul Gillis Perlmutter and Lisa & Jonathan Perlmutter Joan & Abbott Wallis, Bold Earth Teen Mark & Krista Boscoe and Ryley Carlock & Adventures Applewhite Sandy Wolf Kathy & Arthur Judd Ricky & Don Safer Strear Family Foundation Hyla & Howard Greinetz Roberta & Mel Klein The Standard
34 MACC Board of Directors MACC STAFF
Elaine Tinter, Chair Executive Artistic Director ...... Steve Wilson Joanne Singer, Treasurer Festivals Coordinator ...... Ely Hemnes Kathy Judd, Secretary Production Manager & Assistant and Director, Wolf Theatre Academy Ellen Beller ...... Emily MacIntyre Sharon Haber Technical Director ...... Mr. Erock Terry Heller Administrative Director ...... Brynn Starr Sater Marcia Karshmer Administrative Coordinator ...... Kellie Lambert Kathy Neustadt Ceramics Studio Coordinator ...... Vicky Smith Jeffrey Reiss Art Academy Coordinator ...... Carol Redmond Gallery Curator ...... Simon Zalkind Dottie Resnick Marketing Director ...... Megan O’Connor Carol Wagner Assistant Marketing Director ...... Lisa Korsen Dana Melmed Friedman Creative Director ...... Jeff Bee Don Safer Graphic Designer ...... Jeff Hoffman Volunteer Coordinator & House Manager ...... Tom Kobes
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