March 19-26 2017 www.katzjcc.org/film Welcome to the Festival! We are so grateful to have an incredible group of volunteers that donate their time and passion for film to our ever-growing Cherry Hill Volvo Cars Jewish Film Festival. Our committee is comprised of 51 unique individuals who all share a love of Jewish film. We spend countless hours screening films that span genres and languages, and they are dedicated to helping us choose the best possible films for this incredible week. We are very proud of the 21 films that we have chosen to highlight in our 12th Annual Cherry Hill Volvo Cars Jewish Film Festival. They originate from seven different countries, many of which have won awards from their respective countries and are fan favorites from other Jewish Film Festivals around the world. We are also thrilled to include two student-created films with local roots;Better Together “Names, Not Numbers”© from the students at the Kellman Brown Academy, and Kaddish by JCC member Antony Post. We are fortunate that several guest speakers will be joining us to provide additional insight into the films. They include writers, directors, producers, film stars, and film critics. You will get a chance to meet Chef Ina Pinkney from Breakfast at Ina’s, founder and producer Enosh Cassel from My Hero Brother, and Roz Holberg, a Hadassah Board member who will provide insight into Wounded Land. Of course, a festival like ours can only thrive with community support. We are fortunate to live in a community that enjoys the arts and passionately supports Jewish culture. Special thanks to our naming sponsor, Cherry Hill Volvo Cars and our other generous sponsors who enable the entire community to laugh, reflect, discover, and learn through enriching entertainment. We can’t wait to see you at the movies! Stephanie & Larry Michele Susson Whitson and Film Festival Jill Cogan Co-Chairs Film Festival Co-Coordinators 2 Festival Highlights! Better Together “Names, Not Numbers”© Tuesday, March 21 • 7:00 pm at Carmike Join the 8th grade students from Kellman Brown Academy screen the US Premiere of their interactive, multi-media Holocaust project, where they interviewed four local survivors. Honoring Outstanding Women Wednesday, March 22 • 7:00 pm at Carmike Help us honor the outstanding women leaders in our community while screening The Women’s Balcony, “a humorous, feminist narrative about finding the right path to happiness and the subjectivity of righteousness.” Youth Film Festival Contest Screening Sunday, April 2 • 1:00 pm at the Katz JCC Do you have something to share about yourself, a family member or an experience you had around your Jewish life? We want to hear from you and help you share your story with the community. All films must be 3 to 10 minutes in length. Children ages 7 to 16 may submit films by February 28 and there is no submission fee. Final contest screening will be held on Sunday, April 2 at 1:00 pm at the Katz JCC. For full details and submission guidelines please visit katzjcc.org/film Executive Committee Jeffrey H. Gottlieb Stephanie Jennifer Dollinger-Woods JCC President & Larry Whitson Sponsorship Chair Film Festival Co-Chairs Les Cohen Sheila Bader JCC Executive Director Michele Susson & Dave Wynne Mitchell Medoff & Jill Cogan Editorial Co-Chairs Chief Financial Officer Film Festival Beth Segal Co-Coordinators Roz Wynne JCC Assistant Director Food and Beverage Chair Michael Cherkas & Brian M. Adler Leslie Garonzik-Katz Helene Lees Development Director Vice Co-Chairs Logistics and Volunteer Chair Marcy Weiner Lahav Adult, Cultural & Judaic Barbara Flacker Elise & Myron Miller Department Director & Toby Winter Community Liaison Co-Chairs Marketing Co-Chairs Suzanne Gili Post Committee Program Associate Phyllis Aaranson Ruth Dickerman Linda Jacobs Shelley Sax Roberta Abramowitz Wendy Dickstein Judith Krupnick Judy Shorr Jeff Adelman Miriam Faktorow * Bert Lipitz Sue Shumas Sharon Adelman Shelly Faktorow * Roberta Lipitz Becky Siman Janet Berson Barbara Fineblum Paula Luborsky Gary Sternberg Yvonne Brand Steven Fineblum Suzanne Magaziner * Nellie Toll Eddie Brown Mark Goldstein Susan Moricca Ina Warren Irene Buchman Roz Goldstein Phyllis Novick Joan Wechter Molly Lou Conrad Beverly Hersh Dr. Mort Rubinstein Martin Conrad Melinda Kane Shirley Rubinstein * Past Festival Chair THURSDAY, MARCH 16 • PATRON PREVIEW THERE ARE America’s Jewish communities are disappearing. Over 1 million American Jews live in once thriving JEWS HERE small towns that have seen better days. 7:00 PM By exploring themes of faith and community, you Documentary will receive an intimate look into how Jews are maintaining their communities and ensuring their Directors Brad Lichtenstein legacies. and Morgan Elise Johnson Come with us to Butte, Montana, Laredo, Texas, United States Dothan, Alabama, and Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 2016 where you are sure to be surprised by the people English you meet who are doing their best to keep the 90 Minutes Jewish spirit alive. New Jersey Premiere SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 7:00 pm at Maggiano’s Little Dollinger Family Italy, Cherry Hill Mall Foundation 3000 Route 38 Cherry Hill, NJ Exclusively for Patrons Guest Speaker: Brian Balk’s family is portrayed in this film in the Brian Balk, segment highlighting the synagogue from Letrobe, Former member of Beth Pennsylvania, and shows his daughter Ellie’s Bat Israel, Letrobe, PA Mitzvah at Beth Israel. 4 THE DOLLINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION Proud Sponsor of the Cherry Hill Volvo Jewish Film Festival at the Katz JCC Rosenblatt Ad_FP_Layout 1 1/26/12 10:50 AM Page 1 Problems with your roof? Is it old? Missing or worn shingles? Leaking? M. ROSENBLATT ROOFING RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL LICENSED • BONDED • INSURED Quality • Experience • Dependability 856‐751‐8656 • 1‐877‐777‐1929 www.since1929.com ERIC MELLER NJ HIC# 13VH02234300 STEPHEN MELLER SUNDAY, MARCHTuesday, 19 April • OPENING ??, 2012 MATINEE MR. Adi has always been a “good boy.” He helped at home, at school, in the military, in his marriage—he PREDICTABLE became the most thoughtful man you can imagine. 2:30 PM Or to put it in other words—Adi became a “sucker” who was exploited by nearly everyone he ever met. CRITICS PICK Things change radically when he meets Natalia, who entices Adi to live a life full of emotions, passion and Comedy romance. Will he go on being a good boy? Or will he, Adult Content for the first time in his life, be brave enough to be who he really wants to be? Director Roee Florentin New Jersey Premiere Israel 2016 Hebrew with English subtitles 103 Minutes SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 2:30 pm at Carmike Steve Beilowitz Ritz Center 16, Voorhees Israel Connection Fund JCC Members: $10 of The JCF, Inc. Guest: $14 Join us for the February/March/ April/May semester! Film Appreciation Art Cards & Games Cultural Trips and more! Learn more and register online: katzjcc.org/adult-education www.katzjcc.org | 856-424-4444 ext. 1297 6 The Steve Beilowitz Israel Connection Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation, Inc. sponsored the film Mr. Predictable The JCF enables individuals like Steve Beilowitz to create funds for programs like the Jewish Film Festival, scholarship awards, or other services that benefit the community. To learn more, contact the JCF: 856-673-2528 [email protected] www.EndowmentFunds.org There's something about this place.® Come see for yourself! Try us out for a week on us. Stop by the JCC membership desk by March 31, 2017 to redeem your complimentary one week pass. katzjcc.org/join SUNDAY,Tuesday, MARCH April19 • OPENING ??, 2012 NIGHT MOOS It’s Hanukkah evening and everything is the way it’s always been for Moos, who stayed in 7:00 PM her hometown to take care of her father after her mother’s passing. But when her longtime INTERNATIONAL childhood friend Sam arrives as a special guest FILM FESTIVAL from Israel, Moos get the jolt she needed to FAVORITE examine her life and the choices she has made. With Sam back, Moos realizes that she’s put her Romantic Comedy life on hold to take care of others, and she needs Adult Content to follow her own dreams before it’s too late. Director Job Gosschalk Where will Moos’ life dreams take her? Netherlands 2016 Dutch with English subtitles 91 Minutes SCREENING TIME Sponsored by 7:00 pm at Carmike Cherry Hill Ritz Center 16, Voorhees Volvo Cars JCC Members: $10 Guest: $14 Includes A Children’s Song A CHILDREN’S When two students competing for a music scholarship discover that their original SONG compositions are based on a single family song. 7:00 PM Both are determined to prove ownership, leading them to uncover the long lost true origin of the MULTIPLE melody: a story of salvation and hope when over AWARD WINNER 20,000 Jews emigrated to Shanghai during WWII. Dramatic Short Director Shayna Cohen Multiple Award Winner! Best Short Film – Chandler International Film Festival 2016 USA and China Best Short Film – NYC Indie Film Awards 2016 2015 Best Editing – NYC Indie Film Awards 2016 English 27 Minutes This short precedes Moos Begins at 7:00 pm Carmike Ritz Center 16, Voorhees 8 MONDAY, MARCH 20 FIRE BIRDS If you like solving mysteries, then come meet a down-on-his-luck Israeli detective, who reluctantly 1:00 PM takes on a case when the body of an 80 year-old man with a mysterious tattoo and three stab AWARD wounds to the chest washes up by the Yarkon River. WINNING FILM As the detective digs deeper, the investigation only gets more intriguing, leading to a tattoo parlor, Drama and a secret society of Holocaust survivors. Director Amir I. Wolf This intelligent thriller that entwines past and present and keeps audiences guessing with a Israel • 2015 smart mix of humor, charm and melancholy.