Live: Meet The Filmmakers
The Apple Store of San Francisco and SFJFF invite you to meet a few of our filmmakers in a series of discussions about how their creative process and how they use cutting edge technology in their work. The events are open to the public and admission is free.
Apple Store of San Francisco
One Stockton Street [Map]
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 392-0202
July 20, 3:00 pm
Filmmaker:
Dror ShaulFilm:
Sweet MudOne of the year's most accomplished and celebrated international dramas, Sweet Mud peels back the romantic mythology surrounding communal life on an Israeli kibbutz to tell a personal, poignant story of thwarted love, adolescent awakening and human failings. Winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema.
July 20, 4:00 pm
Filmmaker:
Judy SchaeferFilm:
So Long Are You YoungWhy can most Japanese business titans recite the words of an obscure poem by a 19th-century Jewish merchant from Alabama? This absorbing documentary tells the dual story of Samuel Ullman and his remarkable poem, "Youth," which inspired a generation of postwar Japanese eager for new watchwords to live by.
July 20, 5:00 pm
Filmmaker:
Sophie ConstantinouFilm:
Gary's StoryThis is the latest Citizen Film production for SFJFF's New Jewish Filmmaking Project.
"No one needs a Jew who's second best," 16-year-old Gary Podvalny's elders like to remind him. Gary's family emigrated from Moscow to San Francisco in 1990 with $300 to its name. Today, the Podvalnys own their own auto shop. "Don't spend your life under a car," his father admonishes. There's no time for pit stops when you're chasing the American dream.
July 25, 5:00 pm
Filmmaker:
Duki DrorFilm:
Mr. Cortisone, Happy DaysIf you are a sucker for love stories and unexpected angles, the evocative cinematography, dialogues with doctors, dogs named Fellini and mirrors in this intimate tour de force are visceral. Some call this a powerful documentary of a spirited man confronting a cancer. But it's much more. The director with his oh-so-Jewish wit is lokoing for salvation, and finds it by creating a cinematic masterpiece.
Date TBA
Filmmaker:
Dani LevyFilm:
The Giraffe, My Fuehrer: The Truth About Adolf HitlerDani Levi is the winner of the 2007 SFJFF Freedom of Expression Award for his unique and paradoxical voice in contemporary independent filmmaking. Levi's insistence on broaching the taboos of contemporary German-Jewish relations-illustrated in this year's Festival with Giraffe, and My Fuehrer, the satirical story of a depressed Hitler and his Jewish acting teacher that helps him reclaim his charisma – is a bold attempt to establish a cultural dialogue within a vast silence.