We our happy to announce the L’Chaim! Jewish Film Tour, formerly known as The Jewish Art Festival. This exciting virtual event will be held March 6-11. Join us for a cinematic celebration of the Jewish experience with movies and panel discussions each night! Partnering with Salt Lake Film Society (SLFS) has allowed us to offer some of the best films out there. Please scroll down for additional details.
***Tickets Available March 2, 2021***
Film Descriptions and Tour Schedule
Picture of His Life –Saturday, March 6 at 7PM - Panel Discussion with Director following the film
Description: World renowned wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum has one final photographic dream remaining - to photograph a Polar Bear underwater, while swimming alongside it.
Movies running March 6 -11- Showtimes will be 3PM, 5PM, 7PM and 9PM Daily and ON DEMAND
Picture of His Life
Here We are - Panel Discussion following the film with Yonaton Nir, Filmmaker & Producer and Tori A. Baker, CEO & President, Salt Lake Film Society
Description: Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready?
They Ain’t Ready For Me – Panel Discussion following the film with Brad Rothchild, Director & Producer and Rita Skolnick, Jewish Film Tour Committee Member
Description:
They Ain’t Ready for Me, is the feature-length documentary about Tamar Manasseh, the African American rabbinical student who is leading the fight against senseless killings on the south side of Chicago. Every day, Tamar, the vivacious, self-assured and magnetic mother of two, sits on the corner of 75th Street and South Stewart Avenue in the Englewood section of Chicago. This is the ghetto, where poverty, unemployment, addiction, and violence are rampant. In 2015, a young mother was shot and killed trying to break up a fight. For Tamar, this was one senseless killing too many. Tired of waiting for politicians to do something, Tamar took the situation into her own hands. She did something simple yet revolutionary – she sat down on the corner and hasn’t left since.
Each day she sits on the corner, barbecuing, playing music and bringing games for kids to play with. In over four years, not one person has been killed on the block. Tamar and the organization she founded, MASK, Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings, are proving that something can be done, the situation is not hopeless. With just her presence on the block – talking, joking and hanging out – she is making the forgotten members of the neighborhood believe that there are people who care whether they live or die. But Tamar Manasseh is more than just a concerned mother – she’s also a rabbinical student. Her unique background and upbringing give her a perspective that few people can claim. Both authentically Jewish and authentically Black, she brings an understanding of both communities, even as she struggles for acceptance in the Jewish world.
They Ain’t Ready For Me explores the challenges and motivations of this fearless community leader as she works to prevent more people from being killed by gun violence. It also highlights how her Judaism influences her activism. Tamar’s complex identity and magnetic personality combine to make her a force to be reckoned with, and she hasn’t even hit her stride yet.
Description: Asia's motherhood has always been an ongoing struggle rather than an obvious instinct. Becoming a mother at a very early age has shaped Asia's relationship with her teenage daughter Vika. Despite living together, Asia and Vika barely interact with one another. Asia concentrates on her job as a nurse while Vika hangs out at the skate-park with her friends. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs. Vika's illness turns out to be an opportunity to reveal the great love within this small family unit.
Born in Jeruselum (short)
Still Alive (short)
How to Purchase Tickets
Tickets: $12.00 can be purchased at SLFSathome.org
How to Buy Tickets
Anytime: Register on SLFSathome.org by supplying your email and creating a password (note: the password you create will allow you to log into SLFSathome.org any time to buy/watch movies, only one registration is required to view films on our service)
Starting March 2nd: Log in to SLFSathome.org and select L'CHAIM: JEWISH FILM TOUR in the top right of the screen, this will take you to our L'Chaim films and panels so that you can peruse the films, descriptions, and watch the free panel discussions.
- Choose the film or panel you wish to watch! Note, you can watch trailers for the films by pushing the play button on any given film.
- If watching a free panel discussion: choose the WATCH FOR FREE button below the trailer and then the PLAY button: no purchase is required
- If watching a film: Click GET AT HOME TICKETS AND DONATE under the film trailer: Purchase required, follow the check-out process. DON'T FORGET! to put in your special viewing code if you have one.
- Please consider donating during check-out to support our L'Chaim: Jewish Film Tour program!
- Once your purchase is complete, you can push the PLAY button on the film or return at the scheduled screening time you purchased and push play
- To watch the film on your television, check your television manual for instructions on how to either hook your laptop to your smart-TV via an HDMI cord, or how use your Apple device to mirror to your smartTV.
Film Panel Details
Opening Night! Picture of His Life: A conversation with Yonatan Nir, Israeli documentary filmmaker (PICTURE OF HIS LIFE, DOLPHIN BOY), producer, and former photojournalist. Join us for an intimate conversation with Yonatan about his journey to tell Amos' story in the PICTURE OF HIS LIFE, the opening night film of L'Chaim: Jewish Film Tour. Yonatan shares not only his experiences with the film, but also relates stories about meeting the films' protagonist Amos Nachoum, one of the world's most adventurous ocean photojournalists. Yonatan's films have won several awards, including Best Documentary Film Award and Audience Choice at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Honorary Mention Award at the Woodstock Film Festival, and Best International Director Award at the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand. Don't miss the opportunity to learn about Yonatan's work, his motivations to amplify the cause of PTSD, and his life-experience through storytelling and film. Moderated by Tori Baker, CEO/President of Salt Lake Film Society. This opening night panel is followed by Yonatan's TEDxsavyon on the topic of docutherapy.
Here We are: A Q&A from the Mill Valley Film Festival with Director, Nir Bergman. Join us for this conversation from the 2020 Mill Valley Film Festival. Nir was born in Israel and grew up in Haifa and Ein Hod. His debut film Broken Wings won several international awards and was distributed by Sony Classics in the US.
They Ain't Ready For Me: A Conversation with director/producer Brad Rothschild, former speechwriter and Director of Communications for the Mission of Israel to the United Nations. Join us for this engaging conversation about the inspiration of finding a protagonist who is a "force of nature" in social justice movements, yet who impacts local to change lives. Before helming THEY AIN'T READY FOR ME, Brad produced the award-winnign documentary feature, KINDERBLOCK 66: RETURN TO BUCHENWALD, plus TREE MAN, as well as directed AFRICAN EXODUS, about the plight of Israel's African refugees. Moderated by Rita Skolnick. This opening night panel is free.
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