As today’s Polish government threatens to imprison anyone who blames Poland for the Holocaust, “Among Neighbors” examines Jewish-Polish relations through the story of a single small town where Jews and Polish-Catholics lived side by side for centuries.
Synopsis
Among Neighbors combines revelatory interviews with evocative animation, the film zeroes in on the last living Holocaust survivor from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered—not by Nazis, but by her own Polish neighbors.
About the Director
Yoav Potash is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. He produced and directed the Sundance premiere documentary “Crime After Crime,” a New York Times Critics’ Pick and winner of 25 honors, including a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award, and six audience awards. The documentary had a national primetime broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network, then streamed on Netflix for two years and is now available on Amazon Prime. The film helped spark movements to change domestic violence law in multiple US states. Yoav also directed the San Francisco IndieFest Jury Prize-winning documentary “Food Stamped,” which was nationally broadcast on Pivot, Participant Media’s cable/satellite network. Yoav is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he received the university’s top prize in creative writing. He is producing and directing “Love, Murder and Miracles” as part of a project entitled “Untold Stories of the Holocaust,” which will also include “Diary from the Ashes,” his NEH-funded film about the diary of Rywka Lipszyc, an imaginative teenage girl whose handwritten notebook was only discovered in recent years.
Year
In Production
Production Company
Headfirst Arts & Media, Inc.
Subject Region
Poland
Director
Yoav Potash
Producer
Yoav Potash – Producer & Director
Anita Friedman – Executive Producer
Editing
Aaron I. Butler
Directors of Animation
Marcin Podolec and José Garnelo
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