As a fiscal sponsor, The National Center for Jewish Film serves as a non-profit tax-exempt umbrella organization that accepts and administers contributions made to select film projects.
Fiscal sponsorship allows filmmakers to solicit and receive tax deductible donations from individuals and gifts from foundations without having to create a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
The National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) is a 501(c)(3). NCJF is an independent not-for-profit organization. Brandeis University is not affiliated with this fiscal sponsorship program. Fiscal sponsorship does not provide funds, grants or any monetary funding. Nor does the fiscal sponsor fundraise or solicit donations for individual film projects.
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Films in production under NCJF's Fiscal Sponsorship Program
Restitution: Art and Memory
PRODUCER: JOHN S. FRIEDMAN The restoration of the arts in Germany and Europe from the 1940s to the present, a relatively ignored chapter in post-Holocaust history, will be explored in Restitution: Art and Memory, which will focus on a Jewish family as well as on a secret art-network of ex-Nazis. IN PRODUCTION |
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The Lonely Child / Dos Elnte Kind DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER: MARC SMOLOWITZ The Lonely Child" is a song written in the Vilna Ghetto, describing a girl in hiding. It is still performed over 70 years later -- long after its lyricist, composer and subjects have passed on. The song has taken on a life of its own. Who is keeping it alivand why? And how did they find it in the first place? The daughter and granddaughter of the song’s subjects-- who for years has struggled with the legacy of the Holocaust in her family -- goes on a quest to meet some of these people, to find out what the song means to them. IN PRODUCTION |
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Belly (Escape Under the Big Top) Producer/Writer: Erik Greenberg Anjou A documentary film about Jewish circus families in Germany prior to World War 2, and their subsequent destruction during the rise of National Socialism and ensuing Holocaust. IN PRODUCTION |
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In the Footsteps of the Courageous DIRECTOR: PATRICIA GINIGER SNYDER During World War II, thousands of Jewish refugees trekked deep into the Pyrenees -- the 350-mile mountain range which separates France and Spain -- to escape the Holocaust. In the mountains they had to avoid being discovered by the authorities, and meet the challenges of fleeing in harsh climatic conditions and the snowy, rugged terrain. Once in Spain, most were temporarily arrested, then rescued by the American Joint Distribution Committee, which spirited them to safer shores. In the Footsteps of the Courageous brings to life to this little known story of the brave and remarkable Jews who risked everything in the quest for freedom. IN PRODUCTION |
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King of the Movies: DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER: HENRY NEVISON The King of the Movies is a full-length (90 minute) documentary feature film on the life and work of America’s first movie mogul: an unlikely Jewish-German immigrant by the name of Siegmund Lubin. Lubin gave with one hand - helping Sam Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, and the Warner Brothers as they entered the business – while taking away with the other, in one of the first documented cases of film piracy. IN PRODUCTION |
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Mendoza the Magnificent: DIRECTOR: RON MARSH One of the most revolutionary figures of modern sports was Daniel Mendoza, an English boxer in London’s gritty East End at the turn of the 18th century. This son of Sephardic Jews became a living legend when he wrote The Art of Boxing, a definitive manual that remains unsurpassed. Mendoza devised strategy, footwork, and a volley of rapid-fire punches that astonished his opponents and transformed the sport of pugilism from street brawl to the “sweet science” of boxing. IN PRODUCTION |
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50 Children: The Rescue Mission PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR: STEVE PRESSMAN In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia, traveled to Berlin and Vienna in order to rescue 50 Jewish children from Nazi-controlled Austria. 50 Children is a documentary film that tells the dramatic story of how they succeeded despite an indifferent U.S. government and the looming Holocaust in Europe. |
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Ahead
of Time: DIRECTOR: BOB RICHMAN Pioneering international foreign correspondent Ruth Gruber defied tradition in an extraordinary career that spanned more than seven decades. With her love of adventure, fearlessness and powerful intellect, She emerged as the eyes and conscience of the world. USA Premiere - New York Jewish Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center January 14, 2010 |
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PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR: STEVE RIVO Carvalho’s Journey, a documentary film for PBS, tells the story of Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897), a Sephardic-American Jew born in Charleston, South Carolina, and his life as a groundbreaking explorer, artist, photographer, inventor, memoirist, and pioneer in American history. |
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PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH RYNECKI In 1939, endeavoring to protect his life's work, Polish Jewish artist Moshe Rynecki deposited 800 of his paintings with gentile friends for safekeeping. Moshe perished in a Nazi concentration camp and his family recovered only 100 of his paintings. Elizabeth Rynecki, Moshe's great-granddaughter, investigates efforts to locate Moshe's lost and plundered work, many of which are known to be in museums and private collections in Poland. |
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Cuba's Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana DIRECTORS: JUDY KREITH & ROBIN TRUESDALE Marion Finkels Kreith was fourteen when she and her family fled Nazi-occupied Europe, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean. At a time when most countries had shut their doors to the refugees, one of the only options for escape was a Caribbean island - Cuba. In Forgotten Jewels, A Haven in Havana, the stories of Marion and other Jewish refugees reveal a little-known chapter in Jewish-Cuban history. Diamonds become the currency that sustains the refugees and merges two distinctly different cultures, but the industry lasts less than a decade leaving almost no trace.
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DIRECTOR: DAVID RICHARDSON The lives of Max Drimmer and Herman Shine from 1939 to 1945 were a cascading set of improbabilities, historical intersections and unlikely outcomes. They now present a more deeply textured and multidimensional view of their odyssey as young Jews under Nazi rule. They narrate their own story as well as using historical footage and interpretation from an eminent Holocaust histiorian. As a result they create a dramatically compelling personal account of imprisonment and escape when few survivors remain who can do so. The sequel and original can be used as essential components for Holocaust classroom education or self study. |
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The Levys of Monticello PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: STEVEN PRESSMAN When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. The Levys of Monticello is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. The remarkable story of the Levy family also intersects with the rise of antisemitism that runs throughout the course of American history. |
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DIRECTOR: JACOB SILLMAN On a cold winter day in 1916, four Russian soldiers arrive at a small poverty-stricken settlement in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. Their mission is to bring fifteen-year-old Moische Glasserman to the local regiment, by any means necessary. The Pale of Settlement, Jacob Sillman’s first dramatic feature, tells the true account of Moische’s choice to fight for his life and for justice. |
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The Secret Song PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR: HILAN WARSHAW Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite is among the masterpieces of 20th-century music. But it is also something else: an explicit musical depiction of Berg's secret love affair with the sister of Czech-Jewish writer Franz Werfel. The Secret Song brings this gripping story to life in the style of a silent film of the period. The film also follows legendary musicians Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet as they record a new CD of this piece, grappling with its tangled history and how this affects their own interpretation. |
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Theodore Bikel: PRODUCERS: JOHN LOLLOS & MARSHA LEBBY This film project focuses on two extraordinary icons– legendary Yiddish playwright Sholom Aleichem and the contemporary stage actor Theodore Bikel– taking us on an journey from the heart of one Jewish cultural treasure into the soul of another. Based on Bikel’s acclaimed stage play “Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears" which mixes acting, story-telling, music and history, Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem explores the life and art of these two great Jewish legends. The two have much in common– wisdom, humor, humanity, massive talent, and a gift for Yiddish. |
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A Weave of Women: The Book of Esther PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR/ WRITER: LILLY RIVLIN Esther (E.M.) Broner, Jewish feminist, prolific author, professor,and stalwart pioneer of the Women’s Rights Movement died last June and bequeathed the rich legacy of her inimitable voice, character, and spirit to all humankind. An innovator in reimagining traditional Jewish customs and rituals, Broner co-wrote The Women’s Haggadah, which included women within the conventional structure of Jewish patriarchy. In her most celebrated work, Broner encouraged women to devise their own version of traditional rituals. Leading the first feminist Seder in 1975, she used The Women’s Haggadah in all readings and rituals for the Passover meal. Since then, her work has been used in hundreds, if not thousands, of feminist Seders throughout the world. |
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