Director Profile
Deborah Kaufman
Position: Director
Country: United States
Deborah Kaufman is an award-winning film producer and director whose documentaries include Thirst (Premiere: Full Frame Festival, Broadcast: POV, 2004), Secrets of Silicon Valley (Premiere: Fine Arts Cinema/Rafael Film Center/Towne Theatres - SF Bay Area, Broadcast: Independent Lens 2001), and Blacks and Jews (Premiere: Sundance Film Festival, Broadcast: POV 1997). Her films have been shown theatrically and have been broadcast on PBS and throughout Europe and Asia. She founded and was, for 14 years, Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first and largest festival of its kind. A noted activist for human rights and social justice issues, Kaufman is an attorney and member of the California State Bar. For more information please visit http://www.snitow-kaufman.org
Deborah will be in attendance in all screenings.
Films in the Festival
Ezekiel's Wheels
Renowned American-born, Jerusalem-based poet Shirley Kaufman gives an electrifying reading of her new work, a contemplation of longing and the nature of true seeing. The elegiac poem ("wheels and their turnings/can the mind provide/what the eye will/never") is inspired by Kaufman's struggle with loss of sight as eye surgery left her experiencing visions like those of the exiled prophet Ezekiel.