Posted by Harriet Dobin
on 10/15/2008, 1:28 pm
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Mandell JCC's Hartford Jewish Film Festival Calls For Holocaust Film Entries;
Festival Returns March 14 – 23, 2009
Kirstein Family Fund Establishes New Film Competition
When the curtain rises for the Mandell JCC’s Hartford Jewish Film Festival in West Hartford, Connecticut March 14 – 23, 2009, film fans will enjoy the best international Jewish-themed films and play a starring role in a new film competition, according to Festival director Lynne Gordon. A Call for Entries has been extended to filmmakers worldwide to submit films for Tribute: Observations on Survival and Spirit - Lessons from the Holocaust, a new competition sponsored by the Kirstein Family Fund for Holocaust Education at the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford. The Hartford Jewish Film Festival, now in its thirteenth year, is presented by the Mandell JCC and co-sponsored by Trinity College and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
The Tribute competition, with a November 16, 2008 deadline, is open to recent (2003 or later) documentary or fiction films up to thirty minutes in length which explore the “lessons of the Holocaust through the lens of history and modern times,” according to David Jacobs, Executive Director of the Mandell JCC. Films with themes on intolerance, discrimination and triumph of the human spirit are also welcomed.
The top entries will be screened, discussed and voted on at the Tribute Film Festival finale on Monday, March 23, 2009. Winners of the best documentary and fiction films will receive $1,000 cash prizes.
For more information and film submission guidelines, visit www.withoutabox.com or contact Robert Kagan, Tribute Competition Director, 860-236-4571, ext. 200 or rkagan@mandelljcc.org. For more information about the Film Festival, contact Lynne Gordon, Festival Director,Mandell JCC, Zachs Campus, 335 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT 06117, lgordon@mandelljcc.org, 860-231-6304.
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