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PR Report
SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
March 1-9, 2014
Prepared by Sara Huey Publicity & Promotions, LLC

Prepared by Sara Huey Publicity & Promotions, LLC 2
CONTENTS
1 – Summary
2 – Press Releases
3 – Listings
4 – Online Coverage
5 – Hard Copies

1 – Summary
Publicity efforts for the 19th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival were a great success, with full print
coverage in three regional monthly glossy magazines and two local free weeklies; JT News preview,
extensive coverage, and post-Festival call-out; and coverage in The Seattle Times weekend pull-out
edition. In addition to 100% local/regional mainstream print coverage and accompanying online
postings, five significant local-focus film blogs posted Festival previews.
Another highlight in online coverage was an interview with Festival Director Pamela Lavitt, posted in
Seattle Met’s online cultural series, “Fiendish Conversations.” This interview was published two days
before the Festival opened and doubtless raised excitement with its alternative angle on the upcoming
program.
Finally, local Emmy-award-winning television anchor Bill Wixey interviewed Pamela Lavitt live on air
during the popular program Fox News This Morning two days before the opening of the Festival,
reaching yet another audience that might not have heard of the Festival through print or online means.
As of April 6, 2014, the segment can be viewed at http://q13fox.com/2014/02/27/seattle-jewish-film-
festival/#axzz2uZWlmzJV.
During the Festival itself, we had the privilege of welcoming a handful of press and industry members to
Opening Night, offering that special touch of VIP treatment to help them enjoy the event. Opening Night
nearly sold out, and the mood and energy of the dessert reception was very positive. During Sunday
night’s VIP gala as well, we enjoyed visiting with distinguished guests.
The Sunday screening of WAGNER’S JEWS and its accompanying discussion with the illustrious Speight
Jenkins will be featured in a segment for Jewish News 1, to be available online and by satellite television
in some areas. Such featurettes serve to raise the Festival’s profile in the long run, reinforcing its
position among Jewish film festivals nationwide and around the world as an event that values education
and engaging controversy with conversation.
The Closing Centerpiece was well attended and enjoyed by all. It was covered by a wire photographer
from Getty Images and Wireimage, whose photos are now available online for publications who wish to
purchase them in the future. Seattle Film Institute also sent two crews of students to shoot footage for a
promotional video as part of its sponsorship of the Festival.
Because many of the above-mentioned articles and interviews referred strongly to the new 350-seat
auditorium at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island, benefits of this PR campaign will
continue to roll in throughout the coming months. Word is out about SJCC’s ongoing cultural arts
program, and hosting the Closing Centerpiece there, supported by the promotional efforts associated
with the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, gave the venue a great boost at its outset.

2 – Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
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Contact Info for Publication:
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www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE FUNNY
Celebrating Cinema’s Jewish Heroes, Hooligans, and Comics
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival Runs March 1-9, 2014
25 Films and Programs from 15 Countries
SEATTLE – January 22, 2014 – The Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF) celebrates its 19th year March
1-9 at AMC Pacific Place and SIFF Cinema Uptown, and closes in dramatic style at the Stroum Jewish
Community Center (SJCC)'s brand-new, spacious 350-seat, state-of-the-art Dolby Digital cinema on
Mercer Island.
The Festival opens March 1 at AMC Pacific Place with the charming and award-winning coming-of-age
dramatic comedy THE ZIG ZAG KID (2012), which perfectly illustrates the Festival’s core series, “The
Good, The Bad, The Funny,” heralding a series of films about Jewish heroes, gangsters, hooligans, black
sheep, and comedians. A witty, spirited, and action-packed adventure about a 13‐year‐old boy, his crazy
family, his fears and fantasies, THE ZIG ZAG KID is based on a beloved novel by acclaimed Israeli author
David Grossman (The Book of Intimate Grammar) and stars Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet). With wit and
humor, it explores the most fundamental questions of good and evil and speaks eloquently in the
language of film, directly addressing adults and teenagers alike.
Opening Night festivities also include a happy hour (cash bar) and a post-screening dessert reception
hosted by Tom Douglas Catering, held on site to celebrate the commencement of the Festival.
Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and local graphic novelist David Lasky, known for “Urban Hipster” and
“The Carter Family,” illustrates this year’s “The Good, The Bad, The Funny” theme and poster.
The Festival closes on March 9 with a Centerpiece Screening & All-Ages Concert, featuring locally-
produced documentary ROAD TO EDEN (2013) about renowned Jewish rocker Dan Nichols and his
band, Eighteen. Dan Nichols is a tour de force of modern Jewish music and an inspiration to young
campers, song leaders, and teachers, and will be in attendance for a post-screening live musical
performance with his band. The SJCC will provide child care during the screening so parents can enjoy
the film and their little ones can join afterward to rock out for the show.
“The film is more of a movement than movie,” says Jordan Passon, Seattle-based film producer whose
brother, Doug Passon, directed ROAD TO EDEN. “I am thrilled that the Seattle Jewish Film Festival will
feature the film and Dan for their Closing Centerpiece. It is a great honor, and we are going to rock this
town, and hopefully introduce a new audience to Dan’s music and message!” Both will attend the
screening and participate in a Q&A with audiences afterward..

Other special events and highlights include a Matzoh Momma Sunday Brunch & Film the morning of
March 2, featuring WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL (2013), a documentary about the great
generation of “Borscht Belt” Jewish comedians such as Jerry Lewis and Lenny Bruce; klezmer music from
the Klez Katz; and a generous spread of Jewish comfort food from Matzoh Momma Catering. In addition,
the Festival invites seniors (age 65+), along with their family and caregivers, and SJFF passholders
ONLY to a free screening of the 2010 BBC documentary NEIL DIAMOND: SOLITARY MAN on
Wednesday, March 5 at the SJCC. Coffee and cookies will be served following the film ($5 suggested
donation).
Special guests of the Festival include Director Jason Hutt of SUKKAH CITY; Director and Producer
Cecilia Peck of BRAVE MISS WORLD; and Speight Jenkins, director of the Seattle Opera, who will
participate in a panel following WAGNER’S JEWS.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is proud to include a Teen Screen of the 2013 Israeli documentary
DANCING IN JAFFA. Following the mission of renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine (star of MAD
HOT BALLROOM), this film asks the question, “Can dance overcome political and cultural differences?”
With determination and a bold dream, Dulaine takes his theory to a group of Jewish and Palestinian
Israeli students; the results amaze, inspire, and rekindle hope for a generation. Teen Screen tickets are
available to students for the discounted price of $9.
Educational panels are scheduled on the following topics: Sephardic Jews and Ladino (the lost language
of Judeo-Spanish) in connection with THE LONGEST JOURNEY: THE LAST DAYS OF THE JEWS OF
RHODES (2013); the debate and controversy over German composer Richard Wagner (The Ring) in
connection with WAGNER’S JEWS (2013); and architecture and design in connection with SUKKAH
CITY (2013), a film about the 2010 NYC design competition and exhibition exploring the creative potential
of building a sukkah (Hebrew: temporary hut) and juried by architecture’s leading luminaries.
A full schedule of screenings and special events will be available online at
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org on February 1, 2014. The 2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival features 25
feature-length and short films from 15 countries. Early Bird Special Runs now through January 31! (10%
discount on passes and special events). Single tickets are $12 general admission; various discounts are
available. Special events cost $18-25. Passes cost $90-$250. All proceeds support the Seattle Jewish
Film Festival. Sponsorship levels and benefits are available online or contact the Festival director
sjff@sjcc.org or 206.388.0832.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is a proud program of the Stroum Jewish Community Center. Venues
include AMC Pacific Place 11, SIFF Cinema Uptown and the SJCC.
Festival graphics, film stills and press kits will be available online after January 15th at
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/media-menu and www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/media-menu/press-
kits or by request at the contact point above if you need them sooner.
Festival screeners are available by request.
# # #
About the Seattle Jewish Film Festival: Laugh.Cry.Love.Gather.Celebrate. To Life! Now in its 19th
year, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival is a 10-day event and a year-round international cinematic
exploration and celebration of Jewish and Israeli life, culture, identity, complexity, diversity, and history for
everyone. Founded in 1995 by AJC Seattle, SJFF is a program of the Stroum Jewish Community Center,
and a partner to their community-building mission. SJFF continues to grow dramatically in size and
reputation into one of the largest and most-anticipated Jewish cultural events in the Pacific Northwest and
ranks in the top festivals of its kind in the U.S. and abroad. Through cinema, SJFF builds a vibrant
community that is more aware, tolerant, and connected to Jewish life, culture, and creativity.

About the Stroum Jewish Community Center: The Stroum Jewish Community Center inspires
connections to build community and ensure Jewish continuity. Together we create outstanding programs,
partnerships and spaces that welcome everyone to learn, grow and celebrate Jewish life and culture.
www.sjcc.org
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MEDIA ALERT / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
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GUEST GOINGS-ON AT THE SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
Celebrating “The Good, The Bad, The Funny”
SJFF Welcomes 15 Filmmakers, Musicians, and Scholars to the Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE – February 18, 2014 – Beginning on March 1, the 19th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival
plays host to some of today’s most exciting names in film, music, and academia – and to some of
tomorrow’s brightest stars.
FILMMAKERS
On Sunday, March 2, director Jason Hutt of SUKKAH CITY joins a discussion on the meeting of
architecture and spirituality and how philosophy can influence aesthetics and design in surprising ways.
Hutt (ORTHODOX STANCE, 2007) is a New York-based documentarian whose films explore unique and
little-known individuals and cultures, and often reveal surprising perspectives on the familiar as well as
the exceptional. He returns to SJFF for the second time.
Cecilia Peck, award-winning director most recently of BRAVE MISS WORLD and daughter of Gregory
Peck, is expected to attend the screening of her film on Thursday, March 6. Director Peck (SHUT UP
AND SING, 2006) also produces (A CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY PECK), acts (TORN APART),
and runs the production company Rocket Girl, which is based in Los Angeles and produces independent
feature films and documentaries.
Producer/editor of BRAVE MISS WORLD Inbal B. Lessner also attends to join the conversation about
the difficult but very current topic of sexual assault and the attitudes with which it is met in cultures around
the world. With many titles to her name, including THE ELEPHANT KING (2006), I HAVE NEVER
FORGOTEEN YOU (2007), and A WHISPER TO A ROAR (2012), Lessner has edited and produced a
remarkable number of thoughtful and provocative documentaries and narrative features for television and
the big screen. Peck and Lessner are joined by speakers from The Dvora Project, Jewish Family
Service’s Domestic Violence Outreach, Response and Advocacy organization.
SCHOLARS
SJFF’s two educational panels offer an exciting opportunity for interaction with some of our distinguished
scholarly guests. Following THE LONGEST JOURNEY: THE LAST DAYS OF THE JEWS OF RHODES
on the afternoon of Sunday, March 2, Prof. David Bunis of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof.
Devin Naar of the Sephardic Studies Program at University of Washington, Dr. Eliezer Papo of the
Sephardic Studies Research Institute at Ben Gurion of the Negev University, and Karen Gerson Şarhon
of the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center in Istanbul comprise a panel on “Ladino:
Past, Present & Future,” presented by the Sephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish
Studies at the University of Washington.
Following the Sunday, March 9 screening of WAGNER’S JEWS, a panel entitled “Wagner’s Jews?”
explores the intersection of Wagner’s notorious anti-Semitism and the Jews who surrounded the
composer and undeniably influenced and inspired his work. Moderated by SJFF media sponsors
Classical KING FM 98.1, the panel digs into these questions raised by the film: Is it possible to separate
works of art from the bigotry of their creator? Can art transcend the weight of history? Among the

panelists, SJFF is pleased to welcome Speight Jenkins, general director of Seattle Opera since 1983.
Jenkins is recognized nationally as a leading authority on opera, a politically active arts advocate, and
one of the most influential and accomplished general directors in the country.
The Festival highlights a number of less-formal conversations led by scholars and journalists. Professor
Joel Migdal, the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington ‘s
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, introduces and leads a discussion on Wednesday,
March 5 after BETHLEHEM, Israel’s 2014 submission to the Academy Awards. BETHLEHEM is a thorny
narrative thriller and powerful portrait of Israel’s undercover agents in the territories. Mathew Rovner, a
blogger for The Jewish Daily Forward, leads a discussion at Uptown Espresso on Tuesday, March 4
following a screening of MAKE HUMMUS NOT WAR.
Naomi Sokoloff, UW Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, moderates a conversation at UW
Hillel for students after a screening of two episodes of the hit Israeli TV show ARAB LABOR as part of her
class Contemporary Life in Israel. This is the third year in a row that the Festival has included encore
programming for students from Prof. Sokoloff’s class, free with a valid ID for Jconnect members. A limited
number of public tickets to the event are available for purchase. All five episodes of this hit Israeli sitcom
– the first of its kind to feature an Arab Israeli family, with Arab/Palestinian actors and scripted in Arabic –
plays at the Stroum Jewish Community Center in the spring of 2014 as part of a new “Israeli TV Dinners”
program, featuring Israeli TV series and adaptations.
MUSICIANS
Closing out the Festival is a film and rock concert for the whole family. Director Doug Passon and his
sister, local producer Jordan Passon, welcome their documentary subject, musician Dan Nichols, and
his band Eighteen, for the festival’s Closing Centerpiece Event – a screening of ROAD TO EDEN: A
ROCK & ROLL SUKKOT, followed by a concert for all ages in the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s
brand-new, state-of-the-art Dolby Digital 350-seat auditorium. Child care is available for those who want
to watch the film, then invite the little ones back to rock out to the music.
A full schedule of films and events is available online at www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.
The 2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival features 28 feature-length and short films from 15 countries. Single
tickets are $12 general admission; various discounts are available. Special events cost $18-25. Passes
cost $90-$250. All proceeds support the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Sponsorship levels and benefits are
available online or contact the Festival director sjff@sjcc.org or 206.388.0832.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is a proud program of the Stroum Jewish Community Center. Venues
include AMC Pacific Place 11, SIFF Cinema Uptown and the SJCC.
Festival graphics, film stills and press kits are at http://www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/media-menu.
Interviews and Festival screeners available upon request addressed to media contact above.
# # #
About the Seattle Jewish Film Festival: Laugh.Cry.Love.Gather.Celebrate. To Life! Now in its 19th
year, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival is a 10-day event and a year-round international cinematic
exploration and celebration of Jewish and Israeli life, culture, identity, complexity, diversity, and history for
reputation into one of the largest and most-anticipated Jewish cultural events in the Pacific Northwest and
ranks in the top festivals of its kind in the U.S. and abroad. Through cinema, SJFF builds a vibrant

connections to build community and ensure Jewish continuity. Together we create outstanding programs,
partnerships and spaces that welcome everyone to learn, grow and celebrate Jewish life and culture.
www.sjcc.org
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Media Contact:
sjff@sjcc.org | 206.388.0832
2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival Ends on a High Note
Prizes for Best Narrative Feature, Documentary, and Short Film
SEATTLE / MERCER ISLAND – March 11, 2014 – Spanning nine days, this year’s Seattle Jewish Film
Festival – a program of the Stroum Jewish Community center – achieves undisputed success with over
6,000 attendees sold and full houses for many of its twenty-nine films and events. In keeping with this
year’s theme, “The Good, the Bad, the Funny,” constituent films represent heroes, hooligans, and
comics of Jewish culture – and not always in predictable ways – and a record number of passholders
allow Seattle’s cinephiles to take it all in.
“The Good” and “the Bad” are revealed to be closer than viewers might expect in audience favorite
AFTERMATH – a gripping drama by Wladislaw Pasikowski that presents a swirling tale of secrets,
memory, and betrayal – which emerges as the 19th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival audience choice
for narrative feature.
"We are thrilled with the news that AFTERMATH has won the audience award at the Seattle Jewish Film
Festival,” says Neil Friedman, President of Memensha Films. “It confirms our belief at Menemsha Films
that great films move audiences irrespective of language or the part of the world that the film emanates
from.”
Among the short films featured during the Festival, THE MAN WHO BURIED HIS OWN LEG won audience
hearts and votes with its exploration of a strange and humorous Jewish custom. Director Sarah Lefton,
who is also founding director of G-dcast, makes her second appearance at SJFF with this film and
intrigues audiences of all ages with her four-minute take on “the Funny.”
“Judaism is full of bizarre, beautiful traditions that light up our humanity,” says Lefton. “This story shares
tradition, wisdom, humor – everything you want in a Jewish film. We're thrilled it's resonating with
audiences out there.”
Documentaries from all parts of the world educate, inform, and challenge moviegoers and slice through
both the familiar and the foreign. This year’s audience choice for best documentary, BRAVE MISS WORLD,
follows an undeniable Jewish heroine, 1998 Miss Israel and Miss World, on her crusade to hold
accountable sexual predators and to bring their victims out of shadow and shame. In Cecilia Peck’s riveting
and raw documentary, former beauty queen Linor Abargil draws urgency and a sense of mission from her
own experience of sexual attack and encourages other women to do the same.

"On behalf of survivors from Seattle to Mumbai to South Africa, we thank you for embracing Linor's
story of hope and healing," says Peck. "It's been an extraordinary journey, and we are very grateful to
the Seattle Jewish Film Festival for championing our film. It means the world to us." Editor and producer
Inbal Lessner, who attended the Festival screening, adds, "The audience gave us a very warm welcome.
They were attentive and asked many thoughtful questions."
Looking ahead to SJFF’s big 20th anniversary celebration next year, audiences can anticipate a
resurrection of the Reel Difference Award, originally instituted in 2008. This award offers the
opportunity to bring a renowned filmmaker to enrich the Festival as artist-in-residence, and to present
a retrospective of his or her work in the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s new Dolby digital cinema
on Mercer Island.
“The Festival has gone through many significant changes since its inception,” says Pamela Lavitt, Film
Festival and Cultural Arts Director at the SJCC. “Yet our mission remains: to bring Jewish and Israeli
culture, in all its diversity, to the many communities in our region.” The pre-eminent Jewish film festival
in the Northwest, SJFF now forms a cornerstone of the SJCC’s year-round cultural arts programming,
which includes film, music, and cultural education.
# # #
About the Seattle Jewish Film Festival: Laugh.Cry.Love.Gather.Celebrate. To Life! Now in its 19th year,
the Seattle Jewish Film Festival is a 10-day event and a year-round international cinematic exploration
and celebration of Jewish and Israeli life, culture, identity, complexity, diversity, and history for
reputation into one of the largest and most-anticipated Jewish cultural events in the Pacific Northwest
and ranks in the top festivals of its kind in the U.S. and abroad. Through cinema, SJFF builds a vibrant
connections to build community and ensure Jewish continuity. Together we create outstanding
programs, partnerships and spaces that welcome everyone to learn, grow and celebrate Jewish life and
culture. Visit the SJCC web site for more information on year-round film and cultural arts programs.
www.sjcc.org
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3 – Listings
The full text of the initial press release was run on
Jewocity.com: The Largest Online Jewish Business Directory
Click for full posting: http://www.jewocity.com/blog/the-seattle-jewish-film-festival-
runs-march-1-9-2014/11608
In addition, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival was included in listings on the following web sites and print
publications (scanned print editions follow in section 5).
Click to read online: http://www.seattlemag.com/events/seattle-jewish-film-festival-sjff

Entertainment
EVENT INFO
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
FEATURES:
Price: $9-$12
EVENT DETAILS
The annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival provides a cinematic tour of global
Jewish and Israeli life—the ups, the downs, and plenty of laughs. The festival
opens with The Zig Zag Kid, a coming-of-age film starring Isabella Rossellini,
and includes a screening of When Comedy Went to School, which documents
the generation of comedians that included Jerry Lewis and Lenny Bruce who
all spent the summers of their youth at Upstate New York summer camps.
Phone: 206-388-0832
Website: www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
BUY TICKETS
Click to read online: http://www.seattlemet.com/events/seattle-jewish-film-festival-february-2014

Events In & Around the Northwest
February–April 2014
Washington
March 1–9 Seattle and Mercer Island
“The Good, the Bad, the Funny”–themed festival spotlights Jewish heroes, gangsters and comedians,
plus other films focused on Jewish identity and history. (206) 232-7115, seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
Click to read online: http://www.aaawashingtonjourney.com/events/

| Entertainment
Originally published Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 3:06 PM
A weekend of Oscar best-picture marathons and parties
Places to see the best-picture Oscar nominees as well as the Academy Awards
ceremony; the Seattle Jewish Film Festival opens; and several film series continue.
By Doug Knoop
Seattle Times staff
…
The 19th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival opens Saturday, March 1, at Pacific Place and
then runs through March 12 at several locations. For a preview, go to www.seattletimes.com
and search for “Seattle Jewish Film Fest.” For more information, visit
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.
…
Click to read online: http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2023009952_atatheater28xml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
CITY/FILM Starting Tonight: The 2014 Seattle Jewish
Film Festival
posted by DAVID SCHMADER on FRI, FEB 28, 2014 at 10:45 AM
Founded in 1995 and reanimating itself for 2014 tonight, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival
brings nine days of Jewish and Israeli life, history, culture, and art to big screens all over
town. Produced under the auspices of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, the 2014 SJFF
features 25 films from 15 countries, starting with the opening-night feature The Zigzag
Kid, based on Israeli author David Grossman's beloved adventure novel, and winner of best
feature film at this year's Seattle Children's Film Festival. Elsewhere, SJFF casts a spotlight
on true Jewish stories. Among the documentary subjects: Amy Winehouse, Neil Diamond,
theater legend Joseph Papp, the Israeli winner of the Miss World pageant, and Jews who
defended Wagner while that notorious anti-Semite was still alive. For a full schedule of film
screenings, go here. For a review of but one SJFF film, see this week's Festive column.
Click to read online: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/02/28/starting-tonight-the-2014-
seattle-jewish-film-festival

| Entertainment
Originally published Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 3:05 PM
‘Top Hat’ and other classics dance onto screens
Screenings and events at Seattle-area art houses and theaters include the Fred
Astaire/Ginger Rogers romantic comedy “Top Hat”; “Coriolanus,” starring Tom
Hiddleston; and the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
By Doug Knoop
Seattle Times staff
…
The 19th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival opens Saturday, March 1, at Pacific Place and
then runs through March 12 at several locations. For a preview, go to www.seattletimes.com
and search for “Seattle Jewish Film Fest.” For more information, visit
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.
…
Click to read online:
http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2023062781_atatheatercolumn07xml.html

4 – Online Coverage
Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2014
March 1, 2014 6:30 PM to March 9, 2014 8:00 PM
Save the dates for the premier Jewish cinema event in Seattle! The
Seattle Jewish Film Festival is happening March 1-9, bearing the theme
"The Good, The Bad, The Funny" and featuring 21 films, along with
special features! See the full lineup. To purchase tickets, visit the online
box office.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is sponsoring the Wednesday,
March 5 screening of Aftermath, a provocative and gripping drama about
two Polish brothers who unearth their bucolic village's horrible secret, the
collective murder of Jews by their Polish neighbors during World War II.
In confronting the dark legacy, the brothers are forced to question
everything they thought they knew about their family, their community and
their nation. The brothers are ordinary men, both upright and flawed, who
must make hard choices.
Upon its 2013 release in Poland, Aftermath was intensely controversial,
the object of both acclaim and denunciation.
Said Abraham Foxman, ADL's National Director: "Riveting. A must-see film. In a
sophisticated way, it does a better job of communicating the power and
destructiveness of anti-Semitism than almost any other film."
Aftermath will screen at 6:10 pm on March 5 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511
Queen Anne Ave. N, Seattle. Dialogue is Polish with English subtitles. Running
time is 1 hour and 44 minutes.
Films also will be screened at AMC Pacific Place 11 and the Stroum Jewish
Community Center.
Other films in this year's lineup include:
The Zig-Zag Kid, a playful charmer about a Bar Mitzvah-aged kid, Nono, who hires a con
man to solve the mystery of his mother's disappearance. Stars Isabella Rosellini.
Screening on Opening Night, Saturday, March 1, 7:30 pm, at AMC Pacific Place 11.
Running time is 1 hour and 35 minutes.

The Jewish Cardinal, a drama based on the life of Jean-Marie Lustiger, one of many
Jewish children hidden in a safe house during World War II, who later converted to
Catholicism and rose in church ranks to be appointed Archbishop of Paris. Reconciling
his Jewish cultural identity and Catholic faith isn't always easy, and his inner conflict
comes to a head when a group of nuns attempt to build a convent within the cursed walls of Auschwitz.
Screening on Sunday, March 2, 5 pm, at AMC Pacific Place. Dialogue is French with English subtitles.
Running time is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Amy Winehouse, a documentary focused on her once-in-a-lifetime acoustic concert at
an Irish church in 2006. Backed only by a guitarist and bass player, Winehouse
enraptured the crowd with a brilliant and stunning performance of songs that propelled
her to international stardom. Rare footage also shows Winehouse enthusiastically
talking about her musical influences, among them Mahalia Jackson and Ray Charles. Screening on
Monday, March 3, 8:30 pm, at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Running time is 1 hour.
Bethlehem, the tense story of the complex relationship between Razi, an Israeli secret
service officer, and his teen Palestinian informant, Sanfur, the younger brother of a
wanted Palestinian militant. The film reveals the moral dilemmas of human intelligence
work. Bethlehem was Israel's submission as Best Foreign Language Film for the 2014
Oscars. Screening on Wednesday, March 5, 8:30 pm, at the SIFF Cinema Uptown. Dialogue is Hebrew
and Arabic, with English subtitles. Running time is 1 hour and 32 minutes.
Hotel Lux, a madcap caper about Hans, a Stalin impersonator, and his close friend, a
Jewish communist named Siggi, who perform in a hilarious Stalin-Hitler cabaret act in
1933 Berlin. As the political darkness descends, Siggi disappears into the Resistance
while Hans ends up in Moscow, where the Comintern mistakes him for Hitler's personal
astrologer. A minefield of wild political intrigue follows. Screening on Saturday, March 8, 6 pm, at the
Stroum Jewish Community Center. Dialogue is German and Russian with English subtitles. Running time
is 1 hour and 50 minutes.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival, founded in 1995, is an annual, 10-day and year-round exploration and
celebration of Jewish life. It is the largest and most anticipated Jewish event in the Pacific Northwest. The
Jewish Federation is proud to support this important cultural event for our community.
The SJFF is a program of the Stroum Jewish Community Center.
Click to read online: https://www.jewishinseattle.org/news-events/events/seattle-jewish-film-festival-2014

Precocious Bar Mitzvah boy propels zigzagging
family flick
Feb 13, 2014
Michael Fox, Special to JTNews
An unabashed crowd-pleaser in a Day-Glo package, “The Zigzag Kid” transports young-at-heart viewers
on a magic carpet of charming hijinks and manic energy.
Belgian director Vincent Bal has transposed vaunted Israeli novelist David Grossman’s beloved 1994
coming-of-age adventure fantasy from the Promised Land to a candy-cane Europe. The result is a
confection of a film that dispenses laughs and life lessons en route to a poignant moral about the blood
ties that bind.
A family film whose most ardent admirers will be children, “The Zigzag Kid” is fueled by primal
adolescent urges. Not the ones you’re thinking of, but the pressing need to comprehend the past, navigate
the present, and manipulate the future.
“The Zigzag Kid” opens the Seattle Jewish Film Festival on March 1 at AMC Pacific Place 11. Visit
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for tickets and information.
The opening credits immediately set the tone in smile-inducing style, employing split-screens, a full-
spectrum palette, and a pop score to evoke the spy movies (and parodies) of the 1960s and ’70s.
As his 13th birthday approaches, cute-as-a-bug Nono is starting to figure out he can’t abide the rules and
conventions that most people passively accept. He’s not a rebel — he admires his detective father to the

extent that he mimics Dad’s deductive skills and wants to follow in his gumshoes — so much as a
creative thinker and fearless experimenter.
The title comes from Nono’s iconoclasm, as well as the gold pin in the shape of a Z that the world’s
greatest thief, Felix Glick, leaves behind as his signature.
But I’m getting ahead of the story. After one of Nono’s bright ideas accidentally sends a cousin’s Bar
Mitzvah reception up in smoke, our erstwhile hero is dispatched to boring Uncle Shmuel as punishment.
But Dad’s plan is derailed within moments of Nono boarding the train, launching the lad on a mission that
takes him to the south of France and back.
“The Zigzag Kid” is tons of fun as it sets its inspired plot in motion, while Nono is a splendid protagonist
who never devolves from endearing to tiresome. It helps that he’s aware he’s not completely self-
sufficient, for that dollop of humility tempers his precociousness.
In fact, Nono relishes the maternal attention and affection of his father’s (ahem) live-in secretary, Gaby.
The boy never knew his mother, who died when he was an infant, and he’d be very happy if the current
domestic arrangement continued ad infinitum.
Suffice it to say that Nono crosses paths with the 60-something Felix Glick, who quickly presents himself
as an alternate role model with his blend of resourcefulness and suaveness.
At a certain point, especially for those adults who have sussed out the relationships between the
characters before Nono does, the pieces start to click into place, dissipating the film’s aura of cleverness.
Everyone likes a happy ending, sure — although be advised a tragedy is revealed en route — but “The
Zigzag Kid” trumpets an allegiance to the primacy of the two-parent family that is downright
Spielbergian.
Click to read online: http://jewishsound.org/precocious-bar-mitzvah-boy-propels-zigzagging-family-flick/

Who was Joe Papp? One life, five acts
Feb 13, 2014
The vitality and unpredictability of the streets infuses every minute of “Joe Papp in Five Acts,”
Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen’s bracing portrait of the iconoclastic New York theater
producer. At a time when so many people live on and through screens, this documentary
provides a veritable gust of real-world, big-city wind.
Wisely shunning a staid narrator in favor of archival audio and TV interviews with the late
impresario, augmented with passionate recollections by the likes of Roscoe Lee Browne,
Christopher Walken, Mandy Patinkin and playwright David Hare, the filmmakers create a vivid
impression of a man whose metier was in-person communication.
Papp elbowed his way into public life in the mid-1950s by creating the New York Shakespeare
Festival, which gave free outdoor performances for the masses. He had confidence and style, and
friends were under the impression that his father had been English, although he was an active
communist.
Papp also had chutzpah and the courage of his convictions, or perhaps it was simply the wisdom
he gleaned as an adolescent on the sidewalks of Brooklyn: “If you hit first, you have a
tremendous psychological advantage.”

In 1952, Papp cast an unknown George C. Scott as
Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.” Before the
production opened, the New York Board of Rabbis
decried the play as anti-Semitic. At the height of the
controversy, Papp announced that, in fact, he was Jewish,
and the son of Eastern European immigrants whose
primary (and perhaps only) language was Yiddish.
Growing up during the Depression, Papp had been stung
by his father’s inability to find work and his loss of
dignity. However, he later confided, “What I experienced
more than poverty was anti-Semitism.”
This flashback to Papp’s upbringing is the emotional core
of “Joe Papp in Five Acts.” It vividly conjures a
specifically Jewish experience of immigration and
assimilation, denial and acceptance, that’s slipping out of
living memory.
The general lack of opportunity and pervasive injustice left their mark on Papp. Theater, to him,
was both a social good and a public necessity. “I don’t just do shows,” he said in a TV interview.
“They must have meaning.”
He knew history and understood symbolism, turning the crumbling former home of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society into his year-round space, the Public Theater.
Papp fervently believed that theaters were central to the fabric of a city, and should speak to the
times. Hence his numerous groundbreaking and risky productions, from “Hair” to David Rabe’s
Vietnam-themed “Sticks and Bones” to Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which took on
AIDS, Mayor Ed Koch, the New York Times and more.
“We’re living in an age of extraordinary passion and struggle,” Papp said in 1985, “and to have
something less on the stage than what happens in life is a copout.”
Like many a self-made mogul, Papp could be paranoid and petty, and the doc provides
wrenching anecdotes of his break with important artists and collaborators. But he reconciled with
most of them before he died of prostate cancer in 1991.
The title refers to the producer’s roller-coaster life, but it can also be interpreted as an exception
(or rebuke) to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim, “There are no second acts in American lives.”
Despite all his accomplishments, it’s surprising to discover that Papp was 70 when he died. The
film is so steeped in his vigor and passion that we’re left with the impression he was much
younger.
Click to read online: http://jewishsound.org/who-was-joe-papp-one-life-five-acts/

SJFF Preview – Poland still grappling with
“Aftermath” of Holocaust
Feb 13, 2014
Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s extraordinary “Aftermath” is a rare, delicious example of a filmmaker
fearlessly exposing a grievous chapter in his or her country’s history. You can well imagine that
everyone prefers that the secret, and the amoral failings of a prior generation, remain buried, but
one strong soul has chosen to invite the skeletons out of the closet.
The Polish director’s masterstroke is to wrap his
harrowing expose of World War II crimes and
contemporary cover-ups inside the onionskin
layers of a seductive thriller. A slowly unfolding
mystery that grows steadily darker, “Aftermath”
is crackerjack entertainment capped with an
unforgettable gut-punch.
German filmmakers have examined the Third
Reich and the Holocaust since the early ’50s,
confronting every aspect of the Nazis’

undeniable guilt. Polish directors, however, have largely steered clear of the period, with the
notable (and controversial) exceptions of Andrzej Wajda’s wrenching “Korczak” (1990) and
Agnieszka Holland’s powerful “In Darkness” (2001).
Their dilemma is that the Poles, to this day, largely deny the accusation that they participated
with the Nazis in the murder of Jews. (Or that they opportunistically used the invasion and the
war as a cover for eliminating Jews.) “Aftermath” shines a bright light on the dark canard of
Polish innocence — literally, in a middle-of-the-night climax — and the revelation could not be
more shocking.
“It is a difficult and complex subject,” Pasikowski explained in an interview with Variety last
year, “and one that runs against the Polish image of the country as being both a heroic fighter
against Nazism and a victim, which is also true.”
“Aftermath” begins with the return of the prodigal son to the village of his childhood after many
years in America. Although the surroundings and the people are familiar, Jozef (Maciej Stuhr)
sees them through an outsider’s eyes. It’s a clever way of setting the scene, for we immediately
identify with Jozef’s point of view.
As attractive and charismatic as Jozef is, though, we’re put off by his casual, anti-Semitic
putdowns of people he works with (or for) in Chicago. It’s another canny move by Pasikowski,
for it limits our identification and comfort level with the main character.
The younger brother, Franciszek (Ireneusz Czop), has been running the family farm since Jozef
left. Jozef’s arrival is fortuitous, however, for Franciszek’s placid, small-town routine has been
disrupted by a serious yet initially indefinable threat.
Actually, we’ve felt a sense of foreboding since Jozef got off the plane. The moment he set foot
on the road leading to the farm, an unseen entity — friend or foe? — made its presence felt.
It would be wrong to reveal any more of the plot and deprive the viewer of the pleasure of
Pasikowski’s carefully thought-out structure. “Aftermath” is the kind of film where every line of
dialogue and every camera movement have a purpose, even if we only realize it after the fact.
Ambitious, complex, shocking and wholly satisfying (admittedly, in a disturbing way),
“Aftermath” is a beautifully executed example of a film that draws on heavy-duty historical
reality without exploiting or trivializing it. At the same time, it somehow also manages to
integrate an otherworldly dimension into a wholly realistic story.
Above all, the film takes on Poland’s World War II-era history and its ongoing silence with
intelligence, style and — at the crucial juncture — unflinching courage. “Aftermath” is a movie
to be savored, admired and celebrated.
Click to read online: http://jewishsound.org/sjff-preview-poland-still-grappling-with-aftermath-of-
holocaust/

Saturday, February 22, 2014
Saturday Night at the Movies
And such small portions: 2014 SJFF preview
By Dennis Hartley
Tonight, I'm keeping Kosher as I gear up for the 2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival. This year's event,
billed as "The Good the Bad, the Funny" runs March 1-9 and features 25 films and programs from 15
countries. I've had a chance to preview several selections, so here's a few highlights (hopefully, some of
these are coming soon to a festival near you!)
Aftermath (Poland, Holland, Russia, Slovakia) - This intense drama from writer-director Wladyslaw
Pasikowski (which reminded me of the 1990 West German film, The Nasty Girl ) concerns a Polish
émigré (Ireneusz Czop) who makes a visit from the U.S. to his hometown for the first time in decades to
attempt a reconciliation with his estranged brother (Maciej Stuhr). He quickly gleans that his brother
(whose wife has recently left him) has become a pariah to neighboring farmers and many locals in the
nearby village. After some reluctance, his brother shows him why: he's been obsessively digging out
headstones from local roads that were originally re-appropriated from a Jewish graveyard during WW2,
converting his wheat field into a makeshift cemetery. Oddly, he's also learning Hebrew (the brothers are
non-Jews). Not unlike the protagonist in Field of Dreams , he can offer no rational explanation;
"something" is compelling him to do this. It seems he's also dredging up shameful memories amongst
village elders that they would prefer not to process. It is a powerfully acted treatise on secrets, lies...and
collective guilt.

Brave Miss World (USA, Israel, Italy, South Africa) - Cecilia Peck's documentary is a portrait of Linor
Abargil, an Israeli beauty queen turned women's rights activist. That conversion was borne of a horrific
personal trauma. At the age of 18, and just 6 weeks prior to being crowned Miss World in 1998, she was
kidnapped, stabbed and raped while visiting Italy. Peck and her camera crew followed the seemingly
tireless Abargil around the world for five years, documenting her drive to ensure that her attacker (eligible
for parole this year) never sees the light of day, and continue her ongoing campaign to promote awareness
of this often unreported crime. Everywhere she travels, she encourages victims to begin their healing by
giving testimony. This is the most moving and inspiring aspect of the film; listening to these women (of
all nationalities, social strata and ages) recounting their experiences and realizing how much courage it
takes to come forward. You can't help but feel outrage at the most maddeningly puzzling aspect of this
vile and violent crime: Why does the burden of proof fall largely upon the victim?
Hotel Lux (Germany) – So Stalin and Hitler walk into a bar. Actually, it’s a hotel bar, and in reality, it’s a
pair of German vaudevillians who have developed a musical comedy act based on their impersonations.
Onstage, Hans (Michael Herbig) plays Stalin, and his partner Siegfried (Jurgen Vogel) portrays Hitler.
Since this is Berlin in 1938, their act is becoming a bit risqué (more and more brown shirts in the
audience these days, if you know what I’m saying…tough crowd). Siegfried, a dedicated Communist, is
the first to see the writing on the wall and decides to get out of Dodge, informing his partner that he’s
going underground, dragging their mutual love interest Frida (Thekla Reuten) with him. Hans, who is

apolitical, just wants to keep his eye on the prize (he dreams of one day making it in Hollywood). He flees
Berlin some time later via a forged Russian passport. Through a series of mix-ups, Hans ends up at the
Hotel Lux (where the real Stalin and his inner circle are ensconced) mistaken for Hitler’s personal
astrologer, with whom Stalin is eager to consult. At first, Hans ingratiates himself with Stalin, who likes
the positive card readings he’s giving. But Uncle Joe is mercurial, so Hans doesn’t know how long his
charade will protect him from arbitrary execution. Much political intrigue (and hilarity) ensues. Sort of a
cross between The Last Metro and The Court Jester, Leander Haussmann’s film is uneven at times, but
carried by the winning performances.
Wagner's Jews (USA) – Operas weren’t the only things that Richard Wagner (1813-1883) composed. He
also published some virulently anti-Semitic manifestos (later parsed and rebranded by the Goebbels
propaganda machine). Yet, an historical conundrum remains: Some of his most stalwart patrons and
artistic collaborators were Jews (even Wagner scratched his head over their unwavering devotion).
Director Hilan Warshaw sets about trying to make sense of it all in his documentary, using a mix of
historical re-enactments and interviews with biographers, Israeli classical musicians and
academics. While predicated on an intriguing premise, I found the film a bit on the dry side; although at
just over an hour, it isn’t pretending to go too deep. It does raise an interesting question regarding whether
it’s possible to separate an artist’s creative achievements from their peccadillos and/or politics (for a more
absorbing exploration on that theme, see Ray Muller’s great 1993 documentary, The Wonderful,
Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl).

When Comedy Went to School (USA) - In this documentary, co-directors Ron Frank and Mevlut Akaaya
tackle the age-old question: Why are there so many Jewish comedians? Who better to ask than some
Jewish comedians? Robert Klein narrates, providing some historical context (my Jewish grandfather
emigrated from Russia to escape Tsar Nicholas’ pogroms, so as an ex-standup myself I wasn’t too
surprised to learn that it can all be traced back to the shtetls of Eastern Europe). Unfortunately, after a
perfunctory nod to Vaudeville, Frank and Akaaya drop the ball as per any further parsing of the symbiotic
evolution of the Jewish-American experience with the development of modern comedy, instead leaning
on the tired shtick of bussing in the Borscht Belt veterans to swap war stories about the halcyon days of
the Catskill resorts (which is where, the filmmakers posit, comedy “went to school”). There is some fun
vintage performance footage (Totie Fields! Buddy Hackett!), and some poignancy has been appended by
the recent passing of Sid Caesar (who shares anecdotes in the film) but ultimately, it is a somewhat rote
affair.
Saturday Night at the Movies review archives
Dennis Hartley 2/22/2014 05:30:00 PM
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dennis_22.html

Film
Film: The Seattle Jewish Film Festival
Jewel thieves, Sid Caesar, and more.
By Brian Miller Tue., Feb 25 2014 at 04:51PM
If you make a coming-of-age film that includes a bar mitzvah, we can expect to see certain things—
reading from the Torah, proud parents, the gifts, the dancing. But in The Zigzag Kid, which opens the
Seattle Jewish Film Festival on Saturday, what about jewel thieves, a railway hijacking, and Isabella
Rossellini as a sultry cabaret singer? Based on the Israeli novel by David Grossman and reset in ’70s
Europe, this frisky caper comedy does eventually plumb some family secrets, yet its tone is anything but
serious. Motherless young Nono feels ignored by his father, a no-nonsense Dutch cop. Rescue comes in
the form of a kidnapping—or call it a criminal mentorship—by a dapper master thief in a white suit.
Played with a Claude Rains twinkle by German actor Burghart Klaussner, Felix has more than mischief
on his mind. He leads Nono on a kind of treasure hunt of memories, picking up clues about the kid’s
mother en route to Nice, where they meet Rossellini’s chanteuse, Lola. (The dialogue alternates among at
least four European languages.).
Director Vincent Bal gives this genealogy adventure a nostalgic, playful glow; it’s like Wes Anderson
meets Columbo as Nono keeps uncovering secrets, false names, and hidden abilities (his among them).
Though this charming picaresque is well-suited to kids, the 7:30 p.m. screening at Pacific Place is
preceded by a happy hour (at 6:30 p.m.) and followed by a Tom Douglas dessert reception. So you can
always Netflix it for them later. (The fest includes two dozen films over nine days.)
Then there are the docs. Perhaps the most familiar among them is When Comedy Went to School
(Pacific Place, 9:30 a.m. Sunday brunch followed by 11 a.m. screening). The film was seen here last
August, but gains sad new resonance by so prominently featuring Sid Caesar, who died just this month.
Caesar was one of the most successful graduates of the Borscht Belt circuit of summer resorts up in the
Catskills north of New York City. This was where, from the ’30s through the ’60s, so many Jews went to
escape the summer heat. Before air conditioning and TV became common, it was also a breeding ground
for a uniquely new American style of comedy, evolving from vaudeville to shtick and ethnic humor to
personality-driven stand-up. And in clips and interviews, we see that pantheon evolve: Milton Berle,
George Burns, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Alan King, Don
Rickles, Jerry Stiller, Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Mason, Woody Allen, Robert Klein (also
the movie’s host and narrator), Jerry Seinfeld . . . and then the parade basically peters out by the ’70s, no
matter how much pleasure it gives my fingers to type those names.
Since too many of those funnymen (and -women) have passed, most of the interviews are canned—
including Caesar’s. The doc has a time-capsule quality, like watching a ghostly reunion of guests from the
Carson-era Tonight Show. The famous resorts, like Kutsher’s and Grossinger’s, have mostly closed; and
this period of American humor now seems closer to Ellis Island than Comedy Central. What I wish the
film explored more was the sense of striving here—both for the performers, their names so often
Americanized, trying to make it to Hollywood; and for the guests, some also interviewed, who were so

intent on becoming middle-class. And once they did, once they could afford air conditioners, television
sets, and flights to Miami, the Borscht Belt was doomed.
Less familiar to me are the 19th-century musicians we meet in Wagner’s Jews (12:30 p.m. Sun., March
9, Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island). That Wagner was a notorious anti-Semite is well
known, yet in a pre-Holocaust era where racism was commonplace yet relatively nonviolent, some
amazingly talented Jewish pianists, violinists, conductors, and concert promoters were willing to help the
cranky, egotistical composer. What’s more, he depended on them and—according to biographers and
music historians interviewed here—had conflicted feelings about them. No less an authority than Leon
Botstein insists you can’t draw a straight line from Wagner to Hitler. And he further argues that talented
Jews were drawn to Wagner—even while holding their noses—because his operas were so dramatically
new. (He even compares them to video games!) Look at Lohengrin, says Botstein: What European Jew
couldn’t identify with an outsider hero of uncertain parentage who saves the entire society he hopes to
join? (Note: Seattle Opera’s Speight Jenkins will give a talk following the screening, which ought to be
fascinating.)
SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Sat., March 1–Sun., March 9 at Pacific Place, SIFF Cinema
Uptown, and Stroum Jewish Community Center. Most tickets $9–$12. 324-9996,
seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
Click to read online: http://www.seattleweekly.com/film/951315-129/film-the-seattle-jewish-film-
festival
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FILM
Festive
The Chosen Festival
by DAVID SCHMADER
February 26, 2014
SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FEST Starring The Zigzag Kid.
Founded in 1995, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival brings nine days of Jewish and Israeli life, history,
culture, and art to big screens all over town. Produced under the auspices of the Stroum Jewish
Community Center, the 2014 SJFF features 25 films from 15 countries, starting with the opening-night
feature The Zigzag Kid, based on Israeli author David Grossman's beloved adventure novel, and
winner of best feature film at this year's Seattle Children's Film Festival. Elsewhere, SJFF casts a
spotlight on true Jewish stories. Among the documentary subjects: Amy Winehouse, Neil Diamond,
theater legend Joseph Papp, the Israeli winner of the Miss World pageant, and Jews who defended
Wagner while that notorious anti-Semite was still alive. For a full schedule of film screenings, see
seattlejewishfilmfestival.org. For a mini-review of but one SJFF film, keep reading.
When Comedy Went to School
In Mevlut Akkaya and Ron Frank's documentary, a variety of comedy stars hold forth on the glories of
the Catskills, the vast vacation community in the mountains of southeastern New York where

generations of Jewish families went for rest, relaxation, and romance, and scores of fledgling comics
perfected the skills that would earn them fortune and fame. Fortunately, the parade of sentimental
reflection regularly expands to explore the larger culture of Jewish comedy, from its biblical roots (Isaac
means "He who laughs") through its flowering in the Yiddish theater to the initially iffy distinction of
being a "Jewish entertainer" (see: George "Nathan Birnbaum" Burns). Best of all, it revolutionized my
concept of "Catskills comedy," a genre I'd lazily equated with "Take my wife, please." But Catskills
comedy was the opposite of predictable—with audiences cycling through shows and comedians
perpetually exchanging influence, jokes had shorter life spans than mayflies, requiring comedians who
wanted laughs to never stop inventing. What they produced continues to inform a tremendous amount
of what we call comedy today.
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival runs March 1–9 at various locations. Full fest info at seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.
Click to read online: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/festive/Content?oid=18966556

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Seattle Jewish Film Fest: Amy
Winehouse, comedians, bad guys
The 2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival includes movies featuring Amy
Winehouse, Isabella Rossellini and a graffiti artist in Jerusalem.
By Misha Berson
Seattle Times theater critic
This year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival opens with a spirited family romp from the Netherlands
and moves on to encompass music documentaries set in Ireland and Germany, a history of
Borscht Belt comedians and a lot more.
Through 25 films from 15 countries, the 10-day fest (which premiered in 1995 and recently
became a program of Mercer Island’s Stroum Jewish Community Center) explores Jewish
identity and culture — both explicitly and implicitly — via world cinema. Panels and special
screenings for senior citizens and youths are also part of the mix.
“The Zigzag Kid” kicks off the festival on Saturday at AMC Pacific Place in Seattle, with a lively
adaptation of a coming-of-age novel for young people by popular Israeli author David
Grossman.
Nono, in this adaptation a 13-year old Dutch boy, embarks on a bar mitzvah’s-eve adventure
with a twinkly, James Bond-like guide who helps him unlock the secrets of his family’s past.
Among the cast is Isabella Rossellini as a famous singer who becomes a key figure in Nono’s
journey.
A 6:30 p.m. happy-hour event occurs before the film’s 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, screening,
which is followed by a dessert reception catered by Tom Douglas Restaurants.
Documentaries focusing on a pair of noted Jewish pop stars are also on tap for the festival.
COURTESY SEATTLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The film “Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle,” which
chronicles the late singer's
appearance in southwest Ireland, is featured in the Seattle Jewish
Film Festival.

The singular vocal gifts of the late British singer Amy Winehouse are captured in the concert film
“Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle.”
Shot for Irish television in the outpost of Dingle, the film captures the then-23-year-old
Winehouse in her prime, before substance abuse wrecked her career and hastened her 2011
death. She performs stripped-down versions of her jazz-inflected repertoire and shares her
thoughts about music in a relaxed interview. (Monday, March 3, at SIFF Cinema Uptown.)
A Top 40 champ and proud Brooklyn native is profiled in “Neil Diamond: Solitary Man,” a
musical documentary about the singer-songwriter of oldie-gold hits like “Sweet Caroline.” It will
be shown in a special festival screening for patrons 65 and older, and their caregivers, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5, at Stroum Jewish Community Center.
In another musical vein, “Wagner’s Jews” sheds light on the provocative subject of the German
“Ring” cycle composer Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism, vis-à-vis his close relationships with
musicians and supporters who were, indeed, Jewish. A Sunday, March 9, screening at Stroum
Jewish Community Center will be followed by a panel discussion.
You can munch on brunch (by Matzoh Momma Catering, on Sunday, March 2 at AMC Pacific
Place ) while watching “When Comedy Went to School,” which traces the roots of contemporary
stand-up mavens to the “tummlers” and jokesters (Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett)
who honed their routines as entertainers at Jewish family resorts in the Catskill Mountains.
Also on the docket: “Make Hummus, Not War,” a lighthearted documentary about a tasty dish
both Arabs and Jews lay claim to; “The Wonders,” a feature film about a contemporary graffiti
artist in Jerusalem, from Israeli director Avi Nesher (“The Matchmaker”); and “Joe Papp in Five
Acts,” a profile of the dynamic founder and impresario of the New York Shakespeare Festival
and The Public Theater.
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LOCAL TALENT
A Fiendish Conversation with Seattle Jewish Film
Festival's Pamela Lavitt
We talk to the festival's director about SJFF's role in the community, selection
process, and more.
Published Feb 27, 2014, 12:00pm
Image: Image Courtesy Seattle Jewish Film Festival
Seattle cartoonist David Lasky created Seattle Jewish Film Festival's 2014 poster.

The annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival provides a cinematic tour of
global Jewish and Israeli life—the ups, the downs, and plenty of laughs.
The SJFF 2014 (March 1–9) focuses on "The Good, the Bad, the
Funny" and includes The Zig Zag Kid, a coming-of-age film starring
Isabella Rossellini, and Amy Winehouse concert documentary, and
When Comedy Went to School, which documents the generation of
comedians, including Jerry Lewis and Lenny Bruce, who all spent the
summers of their youth at Upstate New York summer camps. There's
plenty to appeal to Hasidic Jews and Gentiles alike.
For our latest Fiendish Conversation, we talked to Pamela Lavitt, the Seattle Jewish Film
Festival and cultural arts director at Stroum Jewish Community Center, about crafting the SJFF's
new home base, the fest's selection process, and Game of Thrones.
What aspect of this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival are you most excited about?
I think that we have an incredible opportunity—with the synergy between the Jewish community
center, the film festival, and the new cultural arts facility here—to ensure that we are serving the
community in the best way possible, and that means intergenerationally, interfaith, diversity,
bringing people together for something new and exciting. We have a closing centerpiece, Road
to Eden, filmed by a local producer—Jordan Passon is a local Microsoftie and her brother Doug
is the film director. Road to Eden's subject is musican Dan Nichols. Anybody who knows who
Debbie Friedman was to the Jewish community, understands that she was a leading light in the
Jewish music world, and Dan Nichols in some ways walks in those shoes. He is a community
organizer, he uses music to engage campers and give kids a sense of confidence and identity and
build bridges of understanding in the American South between kids who have no sense of who
they are in their everyday lives. This will be only the second time that this film has premiered in
the US with a concert by Nichols and his band Eighteen, and it is an all-ages concert. In Jewish
tradition, eighteen or “chai” is the number for good luck, but it also stands for life, so I think that
is sort of the symbolism.
How does selection process for the festival work?
I think people would be very surprised at how complex and rigorous the selection process is. We
have a committee of volunteers, approximately 25 people, who are deeply passionate about film.
Many of them are volunteers at other film festivals, screeners at other film festivals, or
programmers, but most of them are people who have loved the festival for many years and are
willing to sit down and watch anywhere in the ballpark of five to ten films a week to help ensure
the best selection. There is a pretty rigorous set of criteria for how people rate films, it is not just
a Siskel and Ebert “thumbs up, thumbs down.” It’s based on the potential for dialogue: The
artistic quality, the subject matter’s uniqueness, and just an overall satisfaction in the viewing
experience. We love picking out films that come from unique and small countries. We
sometimes will champion the underdog or the little guy; like if there’ a film from Uganda, like
we had a couple years back, or Nigeria. Our role as an independent film festival is not only to
select the best and most satisfying films that we can, but to ensure that there’s a good
representation of documentaries and fun, frivolous films. I think a lot of people think that a

Jewish film festival is a heavy film festival, but this year’s theme especially—"The Good, the
Bad, the Funny"—is meant to tip off that this is going to be a fun festival, and that it’s really
about the pleasure and enjoyment of soaking up global Jewish and Israeli culture.
What’s your favorite film that you’ve seen in the past year?
Hmmm. It’s hard to ask somebody who’s so mired and deeply invested in the festival to toll out
of that. I think, if anything, I mostly binge watch television instead of watching films, because
there’s so much film watching in my life and it’s pretty satisfying escapism. I’ve been insanely
watching Game of Thrones. In this film festival, The ZigZag Kid, to me, is the whole package. I
honestly think, at this moment, that is my favorite film. It’s a glorious film that I think everyone
will enjoy: It has star power, it has razzle-dazzle, it has playfulness. I can only look so far as my
nose at the moment, but that’s what’s coming up the pike for me.
You’ve been working as the fest’s director for ten years. What’s the biggest change the
festival has undergone over that time?
First of all, the (festival's tie to) Stroum Jewish Community Center. The synergy of its mission in
terms of strengthening Jewish life and creating outstanding programs and partnerships that, in
essence, inspire the connection to the Jewish community. That to me is the biggest change that
has happened in the past two years; this is only our second year as a JCC program. And now
we’ve been given the gift—year-round—of a 350 seat, beautiful Dolby Digital cinema. It’s a
gorgeous space for people to experience encores of the Jewish Film Festival, extended dialogs,
social programs, and partnership programs year round. We’ve been wandering Jews basically for
the past ten years [laughs]: Going to SIFF, going to AMC, going to Cinerama. And all of a
sudden, we have a home; a real home. I think that’s a major change.
The second thing is, I think that the technology has changed so considerably. And with that
technology change, we’re also seeing the films themselves are more prolific. The ability to see
more films, to view more films, to considering more films, for filmmakers of all ages to submit
their films through streaming technology.
The third thing is sensibility. We’re seeing a lot more films that are really gorgeous films about
little known stories. I’m amazed at films like Brave Miss World this year, the Joe Papp film (Joe
Papp in Five Acts), the Amy Winehouse film (Amy Winehouse). These are big names in the
news, but we actually have filmmakers that are following people for five, six, eight years. Some
of them are not Jewish filmmakers, for example, Cecilia Peck, who is the daughter of the great
Gregory Peck, is the director of Brave Miss World. You’re getting directors who are not Jewish
making Jewish subject matter films because those stories are important. But you’re also getting a
proliferation of award winning Israeli filmmaking. And sensibility films, which is that they’re
Jewish by a Woody Allen sense of things; there’s a lot more tacit suggestions, not just Holocaust
dramas and films about subject matters that would only appeal to a small audience.

What do you feel like is the mission of SJFF?
Well for 17 years the film festival had the mission of human rights interfaith dialogue, and using
film as a way or launching point for engaging the wider community into the diverse mosaic of
Jewish life in the Pacific Northwest. It’s not an enclave experience, it’s about great independent
film that has meaning beyond the Jewish community, but it has especially important meaning
that filmmakers are Jewish or the subject matters are Jewish. So the mission of the festival is to
build bridges of understanding in our community and to demonstrate the complexity of Jewish
and Israeli life to the general community and to be a resource for low-barrier, positive cultural
expression of Jewish self. It gives us that good, you know, bagel and lox shot in the arm of
Jewish culture.
Mar 1–9, Visit website for venues, $12–$25; festival passes $100–$250
Click to read online: http://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-entertainment/culture-fiend/articles/a-
fiendish-conversation-with-seattle-jewish-film-festivals-pamela-lavitt-february-2014

Six quick global picks from the Seattle
Jewish Film Festival
by Anna Goren - Feb 27, 2014
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is back this weekend for its 19th run, and has a slew of
guests and films from around the world to make you laugh, cry, and think deeper about
everything from the Arab-Israeli conflict to Amy Winehouse.
Here is a selection of a few of the 28 films from 15 countries presented in this year’s
festival:
THE LONGEST JOURNEY // Italy // Sunday, March 2nd // 1:00 p.m. // AMC Pacific
Place
This film features the story of the Jews of Rhodes, a small community living on the
idyllic island off of Greece, worlds apart from the German occupation of the period
leading up to World War II. One a single day in 1944, the Nazi’s arrived in Rhodes and
removed the 1,800 unassuming Jews from their homes, bound for Auschwitz — 151
survived. The documentary follows members of this community who return to the island
where no Jews remain, to recall stories.
Fun Fact: Seattle has one of the largest Rhodesli Jewish communities in the United
States. Jews (like my great-grandparents), were drawn to our city for it’s familiar
industries by the water — at the turn of the century, many of them started fish stands
and small grocers down in a little place called Pike Place Market.
A roundtable discussion featuring academics and historians from the Seattle, Israel, and
Turkey, is hosted by the Sephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish
Studies at the University of Washington, following the screening.
AMY WINEHOUSE: THE DAY SHE CAME TO DINGLE // Ireland // Monday,
March 3rd // 8:30 p.m. // SIFF Cinema Uptown
We didn’t quite know what to do with Amy Winehouse. When she was alive, her voice
and songs were both from a past era, and wise beyond her years. When she died, her
songs about excess and self-deprication haunted us with it’s self-fulfulling prophecy.

After all of that, die-hard fans like me were left with only two albums condemning us to a
life of torturing roommates with Winehouse repetition.
In this concert documentary, Maurice Linnane shares precious footage of the beloved
and troubled singer from a rare 2006 performance seemingly not plagued by booze,
drugs, or antics. Performing in an intimate setting — a church, in front of a crowd of 80
in an Irish fishing village — the film is a rare window into the elusive singers raw and
soulful talent.
Fun Fact: There’s nothing Jewish about this movie except for Amy Winehouse.
MAKE HUMMUS, NOT WAR // Austalia // Tuesday, March 4th // 8:30 p.m. // SIFF
Cinema Uptown
Someone was bound to make this movie — though you might not have expected it
would be an Australian. The film follows the makers and eaters of the ubiquitous Middle
Eastern snack as a cheeky exploration of the Middle Eastern conflict, identity, and
culture. A film for politicos and foodies alike, the producer begs the question — can
chickpeas be the thing people can come to the table over?
Mathew Rovner, a blogger for The Jewish Daily Forward, will lead a discussion at
Uptown Espresso directly following the screening.
Fun Fact: In May 2010, Lebanon secured the Guinness World Record for the largest
platter of hummus, weighing in at 10,452 kg. They took the title from the previously
reigning champions, Israel. And you wonder why the conflict’s not over.
BETHLEHEM // Israel – Belgium – Germany // Wednesday, March 5th // 8:30 p.m. // SIFF
Cinema Uptown
Israel’s burgeoning film industry and movie-watching culture offers as a unique space
for Israelis and non-Israelis alike to explore some of the impossible questions and moral
dilemmas deeply embedded within the Arab-Israeli conflict. This political thriller covering
the complex relationship between an Israeli secret service officer and his Palestinian
informant makes personal the very real and complex world of military intelligence in
Israel.
Professor Joel Migdal, from the University of Washington ‘s Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies, will lead a discussion following the film.
Fun Fact: Bethlehem was the official Israeli submission for Best Foreign Language Film
for the 2014 Oscar Awards.
BRAVE MISS WORLD // USA – Israel – Italy – South Africa // Thursday, March 6th //
6:00 p.m. // SIFF Cinema Uptown

A harrowing story that crosses borders from Israel to Italy to a cross-country fight to end
shaming and silencing of rape. At 18, Linor Abargil, already crowned Miss Israel in the
international pageant, was kidnapped, raped and stabbed while modeling in Milan. The
5 year documentary covers her journey as an activist — fighting to keep her perpetrator
behind bars and support other survivors — to an attorney, all while becoming more and
more religious.
The producer, Inbal Lessner, and director, Cecilia Peck, will lead a discussion following
the film on global perceptions of rape and abuse of women. They will be joined by
speakers from The Dvora Project, Jewish Family Service’s Domestic Violence
Outreach, Response and Advocacy organization.
Fun Fact: The director is the daughter of actor Gregory Peck.
ARAB LABOR // Israel // Wednesday, March 12th // 7:00 p.m. // UW Hillel Auditorium
Called, “the sitcom the Middle East can agree on”, this popular Israeli TV show is written
by Arab-Israeli author, Sayed Kashua. In an effort to “bring likable Arabs into the
average Israeli living room,” the show centers on an Arab-Israeli family, often invisible
from the wider cultural landscape in Israel. It addresses real tensions of belonging,
class, and identity in Israel with nuance, levity, and a colloquial Arabic.
Professor Naomi Sokoloff, from the University of Washington’s Department of
Comparative Literature, will lead a discussion following a screening of two episodes.
Students get in free.
Fun Fact: In 2006, Arabs accounted for 2% of the characters on prime-time Israeli
television.
Single tickets to the festival films are $12; various discounts are available. Special
events cost $18-25. Passes cost $90-$250. Full schedule of films here.
Anna Goren is carrying on the Jewish tradition of having strong opinions about justice, and food. In this
effort, she has worked with food banks, farmers markets, health clinics and grocery startups, and
apprenticed on an urban donation farm. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, QC where she
conducted research on social policy in the School of Social Work. In her spare time, Anna can be found
writing, singing and biking around Seattle thinking about what to do with her leftovers. She blogs about it
@ www.tuppups.com.
Click to read online: http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2014/02/27/quick-picks-from-the-seattle-jewish-
film-festival/21265

2/28/14
Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2014
While during March a lot of attention in the film
world focuses on Austin and SXSW there are still
some great cinematic adventures to be had right
here in Seattle. First among them is the Seattle
Jewish Film Festival which kicks off this Saturday
night. This year’s theme is “The Good, The Bad,
The Funny.” Though I expect if you asked the
organizers they’d tell you that “the bad” part of
their slogan isn’t intended as a critical assessment
of any of the choices on offer. There’s something
to be had for all interests with events running all
the way through March 9th.
Opening night is The Zigzag Kid which sounds
akin to a Hardy Boys caper, if they Hardy Boys
knew what a bar mitzvah was and included trips to
the French Riviera and Isabella Rosellini. The
opening night film includes a dessert reception
post film. I could make more jokes about the
super-gentile nature of the Hardy Boys, but frankly
none of them would be especially funny expect to
me. But if you want to experience some old school
Jewish comedy that actually lands the punch you
might be interested in the festival's signature
Sunday matinee event.
This year’s Sunday Brunch and film pairing (which
I’ve always wanted to attend but never quite get
to) includes a screening of the Catskill’s comedian documentary When Comedy Went to School. Perhaps
more importantly it also includes a spread of Jewish comfort foods. The film itself catalogs the key role
that Catskill Mountain resorts played in the development of the comedy we enjoy today. I cannot say this
is the greatest documentary of all time, frankly cheesy CGI production value of the non-interview footage
and narration of Robert Klein is pretty groan worthy. But it’s still worth it for the broad set of vintage
footage and contemporary recollections about the Catskills. I still chuckle to myself at some of the jokes
when I recall them months later. So, add in the promised brunch spread and I think this one will be a
winner.
Not surprisingly the festival includes a number of documentaries focused on unique efforts Middle East to
try to build trust and have everyone get along. This year's contributions include Dancing in Jaffa and the
particularly appealing sounding Make Hummus Not War. The latter chronicling the food everyone in the
Middle East loves but that people still manage to borderline violently disagree about how to do correctly.
There’s also a documentaries exploring wider questions such as how Wagner’s Jewish fans balance his
notorious anti-Semitism (Wagner’s Jews) and why there’s not a documentary about Neil Diamond (the

Jewish Elvis) at ever year’s festival (Neil Diamond: Solitary Man). That last part isn't rhetorical, I truly do
want to know.
If I had to pick the one that most appeals to my personal
off-kilter sensibilities it’d be The Wonders whose
description of “part noir, part Alice in Wonderland” had
me at “kidnapping of mysterious stranger.” Even without
the deal sealing poster featuring odd looking rabbits.
What can I say, I like a bit of edge (and rabbits) in my
cinema going. Other ones that definitely caught my eye
are Hunting Elephants as I’m a sucker for anything
hinting at a geriatric crime spree, and Hotel Lux because
I’ve simply got to know more about the concept of a
Stalin-Hitler cabaret act gone wrong in 1933 Berlin. But
don't let my personal tastes sway you - tons of details
on all the films (and there are a lot) can be perused on
the festival's official site.
Individual screening tickets run $12 (with discounted
tickets of $9 available to members of various things
including SIFF) for the basic shows, events with food or
music will set you back slightly more. If you’re going to
see a bunch of films definitely consider their full festival
pass ($250/$225) or the super flexible (and aptly
named) Flex Pass ($100/$90) which lets you bring a
friend along (or not) for up to 8 admissions total. Get all
the details on their box office page.
So a member of the tribe or not, do check out this year’s
Seattle Jewish Film Festival. With so many options what’s not to like?
Click to read online: http://www.randomwalkthroughfilm.com/2014/02/seattle-jewish-film-festival-
2014.html

FESTIVALS | FILM
2014 Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicks off this Saturday!
Saturday, March 1, 2014
By Imaginary Rich
While during March a lot of attention in the film world
focuses on Austin and SXSW there are still some great
cinematic adventures to be had right here in Seattle. First
among them is the Seattle Jewish Film Festival which kicks
off this Saturday night. This year’s theme is “The Good, The
Bad, The Funny.” Though I expect if you asked the
organizers they’d tell you that “the bad” part of their
slogan isn’t intended as a critical assessment of any of the
choices on offer. There’s something to be had for all
interests with events running all the way through March
9th.
Opening night is The Zigzag Kid which sounds akin to a
Hardy Boys caper, if they Hardy Boys knew what a bar
mitzvah was and included trips to the French Riviera and
Isabella Rosellini. The opening night film includes a dessert reception post film. I could make
more jokes about the super-gentile nature of the Hardy Boys, but frankly none of them would
be especially funny expect to me. But if you want to experience some old school Jewish comedy
that actually lands the punch you might be interested in the festival's signature Sunday matinee
event.
This year’s Sunday Brunch and film pairing (which I’ve always wanted to attend but never quite
get to) includes a screening of the Catskill’s comedian documentary When Comedy Went to
School. Perhaps more inmprtantly it also includes a spread of Jewish comfort foods. The film
itself catalogs the key role that Catskill Mountain resorts played in the development of the
comedy we enjoy today. I cannot say this is the greatest documentary of all time, frankly cheesy
CGI production value of the non-interview footage and narration of Robert Klein is pretty groan
worthy. But it’s still worth it for the broad set of vintage footage and contemporary

recollections about the Catskills. I still chuckle to myself at some of the jokes when I recall them
months later. So, add in the promised brunch spread and I think this one will be a winner.
Not surprisingly the festival includes a number of documentaries focused on unique efforts
Middle East to try to build trust and have everyone get along. This year's contributions include
Dancing in Jaffa and the particularly appealing sounding Make Hummus Not War. The latter
chronicling the food everyone in the Middle East loves but that people still manage to
borderline violently disagree about how to do correctly. There’s also a documentaries exploring
wider questions such as how Wagner’s Jewish fans balance his notorious anti-Semitism
(Wagner’s Jews) and why there’s not a documentary about Neil Diamond (the Jewish Elvis) at
ever year’s festival (Neil Diamond: Solitary Man). That last part isn't rhetorical, I truly do want
to know.
If I had to pick the one that most appeals to my personal off-
kilter sensibilities it’d be The Wonders whose description of
“part noir, part Alice in Wonderland” had me at “kidnapping of
mysterious stranger.” Even without the deal sealing poster
featuring odd looking rabbits. What can I say, I like a bit of
edge (and rabbits) in my cinema going. Other ones that
definitely caught my eye are Hunting Elephants as I’m a sucker
for anything hinting at a geriatric crime spree, and Hotel
Lux because I’ve simply got to know more about the concept
of a Stalin-Hitler cabaret act gone wrong in 1933 Berlin. But
don't let my personal tastes sway you - tons of details on all
the films (and there are a lot) can be perused on the festival's
official site.
Individual screening tickets run $12 (with discounted tickets of
$9 available to members of various things including SIFF) for the basic shows, events with food
or music will set you back slightly more. If you’re going to see a bunch of films definitely
consider their full festival pass ($250/$225) or the super flexible (and aptly named) Flex Pass
($100/$90) which lets you bring a friend along (or not) for up to 8 admissions total. Get all the
details on their box office page. http://www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/festival/tickets
So a member of the tribe or not, do check out this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. With so
many options what’s not to like?
Click to read online: http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/blog/2014feb/2014-seattle-jewish-film-
festival-kicks-saturday

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