Grantee Highlights

GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS (taken from our e-news!  To receive bi-weekly information about our talented grantees and more, you can sign up on our homepage)

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September 24th at 6:00 PM — New York, NY
Off and Running

Nicole Opper, Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film grantee from 2007, will present the last New York screening until Spring 2010 of her award-winning documentary, Off and Running. It will appear as part of the Urbanworld Film Festival at the AMC theater on 34th Street in New York City.

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October 2nd — New York, NY
As Seen Through These Eyes

Hilary Helstein’s award-winning documentary As Seen Through These Eyes begins a three-week run at Cinema Village in New York City. Executive Producer Jerry Offsay is a long-time board member of Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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October 4th at 7:00 pm — Chicago, IL
G dash D

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater presents a staged reading of 2008 New Jewish Theater grantee Laura Jacqmin‘s new play, G dash D. When secular Jews Simon and Yael have their first child, they decide to go all out: joining a temple, learning Hebrew, even believing in G-d. But they quickly figure out that they have very different ideas about how big a role religion should play in their lives. Can a person just decide to believe in something? When a couple splits down the middle about their beliefs, how can they be made whole again?