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Dear Hartford Jewish Film Festival fans,
Applause, tears, laughter, popcorn and shared moments with friends and
film-lovers are all that remains from a remarkable ten days in Connecticut. When
the curtain finally came down on the 14th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish
Film Festival March 23, 2010, the reviews were pouring in...success!
More than 4,000 festival-goers took a cinematic journey around the world. They
danced with Russian teens in Ashdod, met the grandchildren of a Polish Catholic
heroine, discovered that basketball and sumo wrestling are Jewish sports,
learned the lessons of the Holocaust at our Tribute evening, heard live opera
and a Hartt School symphony and saw Israel through the eyes of her most talented
filmmakers.
What began as a blank slate was filled with pictures, sounds and words. You and
the community responded, the films and events were remarkably well-attended and
we are already looking ahead to the 15th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film
Festival with Opening Night on Saturday, March 26, 2011.
On behalf of the Mandell JCC, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Maurice
Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and The Hartt School, University of
Hartford, thank you to our festival attendees, sponsors, partners, donors,
volunteers, Mandell JCC staff, synagogues and organizations for an
'extravaganza' of culture and community! See you next year!
Click here for the 2011 Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival Call for
Entries
Sincerely,
Harriet J. Dobin
Festival Director
Mark Slitt and Ruthan Wein
2010 Festival Co-Chairs |
