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8th Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
It's A Wrap!
Dear Friends,
It's A Wrap!
The Eighth Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival closed with a record number of films, viewers, sponsors and speakers! A special thanks to our Presenting Sponsors: JCC MetroWest and Bank of America. Thank you to all of our individual donors, sponsors and community sponsors.
The New Jersey Jewish Film Festival announced the winners of the Eighth Annual NJJFF Audience Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Documentary Film.
Join us at our next screening Thursday May 1 at 7:30pm for the New Jersey Premiere of Fugitive Pieces right here at the Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC in West Orange.
Save the date! The Ninth Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival will be held from March 19-29, 2009. Keep your eyes open for special out-of-Festival screenings throughout the year. Join our Festival e-mail list to stay up-to-date on all our year round New Jersey Jewish Film Festival news! Visit our website at www.njjff.org. Click on the header "contact us" and sign up!
Thank you again for your support and presence. I hope to see you soon!
Sincerely,
Roberta Elliott Wantman
Chair, NJJFF
Heather Sorkin
Director, NJJFF
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Best Feature Film - Noodle
Miri's well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down when her Chinese cleaning lady is summarily deported, leaving her young son stranded at Miri's Tel Aviv apartment. A touching comic drama in which two human beings accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.
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Best Documentary - Steal A Pencil For Me
Illustrating the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering, Jack and Ina's love affair begins illicitly in pre-war Netherlands and continues through two concentration camps and liberation. Married more than 60 years, they tell their unlikely but truly heartwarming story.
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SNEAK PEAK - Fugitive Pieces
Thursday, May 1, 2008
7:30pm
JCC - West Orange
Canada/Greece 2008, 105 minutes, Polish/Greek/Yiddish/English with English subtitles and Post Screening Panel Discussion.
Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past.
Fugitive Pieces is based on the beloved best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels.
"Courageous...a film of special humanity." -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Achingly beautiful." -Bruce Kirkland, The Toronto Sun
"Emotionally gripping." -Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
Click here to purchase tickets.
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Ticket Information
Ticket Prices
• $15 for General Public
• $12 for JCC Members/Co-Sponsors/Seniors
• $8 for Students (with proper I.D.)
For group rates please call Caroline Murray at 973-530-3444 (cmurray@jccmetrowest.org).
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