New Filmmakers at Jewish Film Fest
The annual "New Filmmakers' Weekend" comes to the Jewish Film Festival, with top talent in attendance.
B-2247: A Granddaughter's Understanding, a short in which filmmaker Sara Greenberg travels to Eastern Europe with her grandparents, survivors of the Holocaust, to witness and remember the world they lived in.
Off And Running, screened at the 2009 Q-Fest, comes from Philadelphian Nicole Opper, one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces to watch. Her docfollows an African-American girl adopted by two Jewish lesbians, and the girl's struggle to find the balance between her biological and cultural identities.
Nymphs In The Mist, Israeli director Yoram Sachs rom-com, about a broken-hearted video store clerk who gets talked into making a movie -- as a way to meet lots of cute Tel Aviv women and take his mind off of the girl who left him. Sachs will be on hand to explain himself. For complete schedule and ticket info, go to www.pjff.org, or call 215-545-4400.
The reel "Robin Hood."