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.
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Films currently in production under
NCJF's Fiscal Sponsorship Program
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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In the epicenter of the Middle East conflict, an aggressive new sport plays out at Kraft stadium in the heart of Jerusalem. Israel’s weekend warriors team up, suit up, don helmets over their kippahs, and charge the field for a season of full-contact American Tackle Football, revealing pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Secular or religious, Israeli-born or not, these Jews, Muslims and Christians are transformed from ordinary citizens into fierce gridiron competitors on a quest for Israel Bowl glory. Providing a unique insight into the incredible religious and cultural diversity that is Israel, the filmmaker intends to profile players, teams, coaches, officials and fans from three teams throughout one playing season as they learn the calls, execute strategies and bond together as a team.
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Lullaby is a fiction feature film about a grandmother and granddaughter’s bond – put to the test when the grandmother’s secret past as one of Poland’s ‘Hidden Children’ of the Holocaust is compromised. Proceeds from the film’s distribution will be donated to the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, in part, to expand their current collection of Hidden Children artifacts, creating a permanent legacy of this under recognized Diaspora for years to come.
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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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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. 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 Return examines the world of young Jews living in Poland today, by following the intertwined lives of four young women struggling to create a Jewish identity and community.
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Without official support from the American government and despite stiff resistance from major Jewish organizations, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled into the heart of the Nazi empire to carry out a bold plan to rescue 50 children from increasingly dangerous Nazi-occupied Vienna.
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Mishpokhe, a four part documentary series to air on BBC, ZDF, Arte, ORF and Noga 8, tells the history of the Jews in the modern period through the intimate lens of family histories. Subjects include a diverse range of Jewish subjects, including rabbis, bankers, Holocaust survivors, race car drivers, boxing champions, entrepreneurs and cabaret artists.
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Jewish Partisans:
The True Story of Armed Jewish Resistance During World War II
The feature documentary Jewish Partisans will tell the extraordinary story of Jews who fought back against the Nazis during World War II as told by those who personally fought and lived the history. Through candid interviews, eyewitness accounts, and archival materials, the documentary will add to the common understanding of Holocaust history, helping to dispel the myth of Jewish passivity by bringing to life stories of spiritual and armed resistance in the face of annihilation.
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The King of the Movies:
Siegmund Lubin
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.
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In a synagogue with white sand floors, the 350-year-old congregation of Jamaican Jews gathers in the city of Kingston. The Jamaica Projects explores the history of this little-known Jewish community, one which challenges some of our ideas about race, religion and cultural identity.
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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, 2010For more about this film and to make a donation towards its production, click here.
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