Grantee News

2023

EventGrantee Film
San Francisco Jewish Film FestivalThe Wild One (2022), Vishniac (2023), and June Zero (2022)
Jerusalem Film FestivalThe Return from the Other Planet (2023), Charlotte Salmon: Life and the Maiden (2022), and GIADO – Holocaust in the Desert (2023)
Filmfest MünchenThe Return From the Other Planet (2023)
Jewish Film Festival Berlin BrandenburgSabotage (2022), Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden (2022), June Zero (2022), The Rhapsody (2022), and The Wild One (2022)
Toronto Jewish Film FestivalJune Zero (2022), Sabotage (2022), and Vishniac (2023)
JxJ DC Jewish Film X Music FestivalJune Zero (2022) and The Wild One (2022)
Broadcast on national television in Israel on Channel 13 for Yom HaShoahBaltic Truth (2022)
Ann Arbor Jewish Film FestivalSave the Children (2022)
Theatrical release in FranceThe Wild One (2022)
Massachusetts premiere at The National Center or Jewish Films Annual Film Festival, and screened at the JCC of the North Shore International Jewish Film FestivalJune Zero (2022)
Best Cinematography at the Santa Barbara Film Awards.Resistance – They Fought Back (2023)
Palm Springs Jewish Film Festival.Baltic Truth (2022)
Denver Jewish Film FestivalAdam & Ida – Almost a Fairytale (2022) and Berenshtein (2021)
World Premiere at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival.Deadly Deception at Sobibor (2020)
Judy Levis Krug Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival.Baltic Truth (2022), June Zero (2022), The Goering Catalogue (2021), and The Rhapsody (2022)
Limited theatrical run in New York (Quad Cinema) and Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica Film Center).Remember This (2022)
Santa Barbara Film FestivalVishniac (2023)
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.June Zero (2022), Remember This (2022), and The Wild One (2022) screened at the
Miami Jewish Film FestivalAdam & Ida – Almost a Fairytale (2022), Fritz Bauer’s Legacy (2022), June Zero (2022), and The Rhapsody (2022)
New York Jewish Film FestivalCharlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden (2022) and June Zero (2022)

2022

EventGrantee Film
Received a NYSCA Grant by the New York State Council on the ArtsMy Underground Mother and
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Fall 2022 Jewish Story Partners GrantBecoming Elie Wiesel,
Third Reich of Dreams, and
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
UK Jewish Film FestivalThe Wild One (2022) and
June Zero (2022)
Jewish International Film Festival (Australia)The Rhapsody (2022),
Remember This (2022), and
June Zero (2022)
Awarded the Prix Historia for Best Historical Documentary by the Historia magazineSave the Children (2022)
Belarussian TV channel ONTLahva: The Price of Freedom (2022)
IDFA ForumRabbit
Deauville American Film Festival in FranceJune Zero (2022) and
The Wild One (2022)
JFI Completion GrantThe Return From the Other Planet (2023)
San Francisco Jewish Film FestivalRemember This (2022)
Karlovy Vary International Film FestivalJune Zero (2022)
Toronto Jewish Film FestivalThe Rhapsody (2022)
Jewish Film Festival Berlin BrandenburgAdam & Ida – Almost a Fairytale (2022)
Tribeca Film FestivalThe Wild One (2022)
German festival premiere at the Lichter Filmfest Franfurt InternationalFritz Bauer’s Legacy (2022)
Screened at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and Crossing Europe Film Festival The City and the City (2022)
Washington Jewish Film Festival Berenshtein (2021)
The City and the City (2022)
Broadcast on Israeli TV for Holocaust Remembrance Day in April.We Wept Without Tears (2022)
Selected for the 2022 ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship.Steven Fischler (Gone But Not Forgotten)
Selected for New Directors New Films and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in April.The City and the City (2022)
Opening night film at the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Where is Anne Frank (2021)
2022 Jewish Film Intitute Residency.Marisa Fox (My Underground Mother, currently in production)
World premiere in the Encounters competition of the 72nd BerlinaleThe City and the City (2022)

2021

EventGrantee Film
Jewish Story Partners grantThe Liegnitz Plot (post-production),
Love, Murder and Miracles (post-production)
US theatrical release in October 2021Love, it was Not (2020),
Speer Goes to Hollywood (2020)
Telluride Film Festival and Jerusalem Film FestivalSpeer Goes to Hollywood (2020)
Best South African Documentary at the Durban International Film FestivalI Am Here (2021)
Jewish Film Institute completion grantThe Liegnitz Plot (2021)
World premiere at the Cannes Film FestivalWhere is Anne Frank (2021)
Human Rights Watch Film FestivalTacheles, the Heart of the Matter (2020)
North American premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary FestivalLove It Was Not (2020)
European broadcast premiere on Arte France and GermanyThe Goering Catalogue (2021)
World premiere at the Atlanta Jewish Film FestivalI Am Here (2021)
Broadcast on ARTE in France, Germany, Austria, and SwitzerlandBorn in Auschwitz (2021)

2020

EventGrantee Film
World premiere at the Tel Aviv
International Documentary Film Festival (Docaviv),
Awarded the prize for best Israeli documentary.
IDFA 2020 (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam)
Love It Was Not (2020)
Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (USA),
Moving Parts Film Festival (USA),
Indigo Moon Festival (USA),
Alexandria Film Festival (USA),
Crossing the Screen Film Festival (UK)
Finding Manny (2020)
Broadcast on more than 266 PBS stationsMy Survivor (2020)
Suncoast Regional Emmy® Award for Cultural Documentary and DirectingMy Survivor (2020)
World premiere at the International
Documentary Festival Munich
Tacheles, the Heart of the Matter (2020)
Movies That Matter Film Festival in the NetherlandsWinter Journey (2019)
Westchester Jewish Film Festival,
San Diego Jewish Film Festival,
The Albanian Code (2020)
Sacramento Jewish Film Festival,
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival,
BCN Film Fest (ES),
Paris German Film Festival,
Moscow Jewish Film Festival
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
World premiere at the Berlin International
Film Festival
Speer Goes to Hollywood (2020)
Nominated for the Berlinale Documentary AwardSpeer Goes to Hollywood (2020)
Broadcast on the History Channel Canada
for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust