Vilna

This exquisitely crafted love poem filmed in New York and Vilna pays tribute to the Lithuanian city once known as "The Jerusalem of the East."

Harvey Wang is a filmmaker and a widely published photographer. He has filmed or directed documentaries for National Geographic's Explorer television series, CBS, HBO and WNET/NY. He was director of video for the Miramax film Blue in the Face, and has directed television commercials and public service announcements for Maysles Films in New York City and since 1997 with Stiefel & Co. in Los Angeles. Harvey Wang received an Emmy Award for his work on WNET's City Arts in 1996 and in 1998. The short film Two Weddings, he co-produced and directed with Ed Rosenstein, was screened at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, as well as in film festivals in Taos, Aspen, Nantucket and London. His short film Vilna had its world premier at the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 1999. Harvey's most recent books are Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics and Other American Heroes (W.W. Norton & Co., 1995) and Harvey Wang's New York (W. W. Norton & Co., 1990) a book of portraits of older New Yorkers whose occupations and way of life are being threatened by change. He is working with David Isay on Flophouse (Random House), a collection of portraits and stories from residents of the last few remaining lodging houses on The Bowery, New York's famous skidrow.