The J. (a weekly covering the S an Francisco Jewish Bay Bay Area) has an article about the making of a documentary tentatively titled "American Jerusalem: The Jews and the Building of San Francisco." It is directed by Marc Shaffer, but the project's originator was producer, Jackie Krentzman.
Finally at the end of February I managed to find some time to add festivals and their films to this site. That included 11 January festivals, along with the 135 movies they played. I also added 18 February festivals, but I didn't list their films yet. As af now, March 1, there are 492 festivals listed on this site and for 249 of them I also have the films they have shown. Altogether there are 1102 movies listed here.
We spent hours arguing about just what it was that made a film Jewish, and what made one Jewish film more important than another. ...Starting Monday, we’ll present you with a new batch of cinema magic each day of the week. ...
The film historian Kevin Gough-Yates once asked: “Why is it that UK cinema, which has continued to have a large number of Jews working within it, should have produced so few films with Jewish themes?”
