Awards
BEST DOCUMENTARY/ AUDIENCE AWARD Palm Beach Jewish Film
Festival (2007)
SPECIAL MENTION Jewish Experience Award/ Jury Prize,
Jerusalem International Film Festival (2007)
Selected Festival Screenings
Mid-Island Y JCC (2017)
Toronto Jewish Film Festival (2015)
Farthest North Jewish Film Festival (2013)
Southwest Florida Jewish Film Festival (2013)
JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival (2012)
Florida Atlantic University Jewish Kultur Festival (2012)
Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival (2012)
Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival (2012)
Buffalo
Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Hamptons
Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Spertus
Institute of Jewish Studies (2009)
Jewish
Museum of Maryland (2009)
Savannah
Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Las
Vegas Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Mexico
International Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Dayton
Jewish International Film Festival (2008)
Seattle
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Baltimore
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Pacific
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Pittsburgh
Jewish Israeli Festival (2008)
Santa
Barbara
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Los Angeles
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Toronto
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
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Tucson Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Miami Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Denver Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Sacramento Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Phoenix
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Austin
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Santa
Fe Film Festival (2008)
New Jersey
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Vancouver
International Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Rochester
Jewish Film Festival (2008)
São
Paulo Jewish Film Festival (2008)
NCJW Jewish
Women's Film Festival, New York (2008)
JCC Manhattan
(2008)
San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Jerusalem
International Film Festival (2007)
Woodstock
Film Festival (2007)
Boston
Jewish Film Festival (2007)
London
Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Palm
Beach Jewish Film Festival (2007)
PREMIERE
Silverdocs/ AFI Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (2007) |
Synopsis
Making Trouble: Three Generations
of Funny Jewish Women
tells the story of six of the greatest female comic performers of the
last century — Molly
Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy
Wasserstein.
Hosted by
four of today’s funniest women — Judy
Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson —
it's the true saga of what it means to be Jewish, female and funny.
"What
is it that makes funny Jewish women so funny…and so Jewish? Is it
a nose wrinkled just so, accompanied by a devilishly sexy grin or a jolting
and sarcastic punch line? Is it the acerbic humor of generations of immigrant
and first-generation women who fought for a place in America with their
brains and their wit, and at the same time needed to make a living? Making
Trouble celebrates three generations who, for all of the
reasons above, successfully went from vaudeville and the Yiddish theatre
to Broadway, from Ziegfeld’s Follies to Saturday Night Live."
-San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Critical Acclaim
“Empowering, side-splitting laughs …" – Kansas
City Jewish Chronicle
“Hilarious
and instructive…" – Bay Area Reporter
"More please!"– JewSchool
"...the
film is like a standing ovation for performers who have earned one."
– Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online\
" This
is a seriously funny film... Rich in entertainment history, the film uses
interviews with experts, scholars and entertainers as well as archival
material and rare film and television clips to bring to life these female
comedic legends." -JewishBoston.com
Credits
Director/Producer:
Rachel Talbot
Executive
Producer: Gail T. Reimer
Produced by:
Jewish Women's Archive
Editor: Philip
Shane
Music: Joel
Goodman
External Links
Making Trouble Video Clips from the Cutting Room Floor | Watch Tovah Feldshuh on Sophie Tucker, Alex Borstein on Gilda Radner's beauty, Adrienne Cooper on Molly Picon, and Wendy Wasserstein on Jewish entertainers.
Official
Website: makingtrouble.com
More
on the Jewish Women's Archive and on the making of the film.
Discussion
Guide
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Trailer
Home Use DVD:
$29.95
Does not include Classroom or Library Use Rights or Public Performance Rights. More Information
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Classroom/Library Use DVD: $195
Does
not include Public Performance Rights. More Information |
Digital Site Licensing (DSL) available - Contact us |
Step down pricing for K-12 & public libraries may be available - Contact us |
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