Six Jewish documentaries receive filmmaking grants
The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking has awarded six grants totaling $160,000 to filmmakers of documentaries on Jewish themes.
The recipients of the grants, which range from $10,000 to $50,000 each, were selected from more than 63 proposals submitted. The fund, a project of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, was established last year with a grant from Stephen Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation. Previous winners have shown their films at the Sundance Film Festival and major Jewish film festivals, and several of the documentaries have been broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System.
The six grant-winning films are:
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"Arguing the World," Joseph Dorman's chronicle of the varied encounters of New York Jewish intellectuals Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer;
- "From Swastika to Jim Crow," Stephen Fischler and Joel Sucher's story of European Jewish refugees who found academic careers in black colleges in the South during World War II;
- "Silences," a memoir, in animation, of Tana Ross, a child survivor of Theresienstadt;
- "Trembling Before God," Sandi Dubowski's story of the identity struggle among gays and lesbians within the Orthodox Jewish community;
- "Either/Or," Susan Korda's personal journey to Germany to understand the effects of the Holocaust on her life as a "second generation survivor;" and
- "A Letter Without Words," in which filmmaker Lisa Lewenz uses vintage footage shot in Nazi Germany by her grandmother.
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