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The state of affairs in the Middle East is currently and constantly in flux. Revolutions continue in the Arab world and the rebellion fights on in Libya. The Iranian and Syrian regimes hold on defiantly. A renewed US peace initiative...
Revisit some of the historic milestones of the region with award-winning films from 7th Art.
*Cine Golden Eagle Silver Apple Award
*National Educational Media Network
"the very model of a meticulous yet exciting step-by-step account of a major historical event." -The Los Angeles Times
"an emotionally powerful account." -The Hollywood Reporter
After World War II, a group of private American citizens banded together in a clandestine effort to transport Holocaust survivors to Palestine.
On July 11, 1947, in the port of Sete, France, 4,500 Jewish refugees were crammed into the hull of a decrepit steamship, later named Exodus 1947.
A British blockade intercepted Exodus 1947 in international waters off the coast of Palestine. The tense standoff culminated in a direct attack by military personnel against the unarmed civilians on the Exodus 1947. This highly publicized international incident heavily influenced the United Nations resolution authorizing the partitioning of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. Thus, the Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming a new nation. The program focuses on clandestine and illegal American efforts to finance and crew the most infamous of ten American ships that attempted to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine.
EXODUS 1947 is a one hour documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The film is a richly layered program, constructed with first person accounts to recall events that shaped world history.
Noteworthy accomplishments for the film:
· IRANIUM used to educate Congress: Film screened to full house and distributed to all 435 members.
· Played in over 100 AMC theaters along with colleges and community centers since its February release.
· Website has received over 1 million views and counting (check it out here: www.iraniumthemovie.com).
· Already translated into Farsi, Spanish and will be available in Romanian soon.
Iranium explores the principles of the 1979 Islamic revolution, demonstrates the hatred and violence exhibited by Iran's leadership, and documents the regime's abuse of their citizenry, and its use of terror proxies abroad. Iran's development of a nuclear program has only added to the already immense danger posed by this regime.
Click here to see a full list of Jewish themed films available from 7th Art Releasing!
Seventh Art Releasing picks up Susanne Tabata's documentary, BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED, the story behind the music that inspired Nirvana, Henry Rollins, Guns N' Roses and a generation of Punk Rockers!
*Official Selection Doxa Documentary Film Festival
"Marvellous" -Vancouver Sun
"Bloodied but Unbowed takes a loving-and long overdue-look at one of the most fertile scenes in North American music history, with Tabata mixing rare archival footage with modern-day interviews with those who were on the frontlines." -Straight.com
"Bloodied But Unbowed is easily the most definitive and entertaining retrospective on Vancouver's punk scene in the late '70s and early '80s committed to film... Moving and thoughtful." -Vancouver Courier
BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED is the first in-depth chronicle of Vancouver's original punk scene. Distinct from London, New York and L.A., Vancouver punk was eclectic, raw, politically charged, relentless and at times comedic. Bands like DOA, Subhumans, Young Canadians, Pointed Sticks, Modernettes, UJ3RK5 and the Dishrags, helped forge the city's reputation as an alternative mecca, attracting and influencing the likes of Kurt Cobain, former Guns 'N Roses' bassist Duff McKagan and the hardcore king of all media, Henry Rollins.
Leather, spit, beer, drugs, sex and a righteously enraged music terrified the mainstream in Vancouver in the 70s and Bloodied But Unbowed captures the raw essence of the kids who barely lived through it, as well as those who did not. Drugs wreaked havoc in the punk scene, snuffing short the lives of some of the scene's luminaries. But despite the harsh toll, many of Vancouver's most infamous sons (to wit: Joe Shithead and eternal bad boy Randy Rampage) are still on the road, playing gigs, pissing on squares and generally causing an uproar. Narrated by Billy Hopeless and packed with stories of love and loss, rebellion and regret, BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED captures the rise and fall of an epic era.
About the Filmmaker
On the heels of SkateGirl and 49Degrees, Susanne Tabata returns with her first documentary feature, Bloodied But Unbowed, profiling the early punk scene in Vancouver as told by the surviving legends who made it happen. Tabata has developed and produced many educational programs for young audiences in areas of social justice. Credited as a producer on Jason Priestley's Barenaked in America, Tabata is a digital media producer and small format production specialist. Susanne broke out as a director with the documentary on the subculture of Canadian surfing, 49Degrees. FUELTV Los Angeles picked up the doc, inviting Tabata to enter a filmmaking contest and she was one of 10 directors chosen from 250+ to make a film. The film SkateGirl (FoxFUEL) is a history of women's professional skateboarding.
Los Angeles, CA (May 13th, 2011) – Hot off the heels of their HotDocs acquisition of IN HEAVEN UNDERGROUND and just before Cannes gets fully underway, 7th Art Releasing announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Lawrence Johnson’s personal documentary, STUFF.
STUFF relates the personal odyssey of a Portland, Oregon filmmaker through a crisis of identity fueled by his father’s death, and the process of sorting and distributing the garage-sized storage unit full of the stuff that his father left behind, which quickly becomes larger-than-life. Part road movie, part meditation, STUFF is a funny, intimate and unflinching journey down the rabbit hole of the relationship between adult children and their parents. Through still photography, live-action footage, home movies and animation, STUFF explores psychic terrain that we all face when confronted by the loss of parents and our own mortality.
Lawrence Johnson has produced and directed more than forty films in the past three decades. Johnson has developed a national reputation for historical and cultural documentary work for museums, producing films for the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington State History Museum. He won the Golden Muse Award from the American Association of Museums. His work has played at numerous film festivals.
7th Art Releasing plans to screen STUFF on the winter festival circuit followed by an early 2012 theatrical release.
“Beautifully plain-spoken…Fearless…” –The Oregonian
*Official Selection Berlin Jewish Film Festival
Click here to view the Trailer
Screens on May 29th at 6PM (Kino Arsenal)
With the title of "Boxing Champion of Israel" under his belt and a one-way airplane ticket, Merhav Mohar sets his sights on his next challenge. Leaving worried parents, friends, and his only fans behind, he sets off for the bright lights of New York city. He is determined to achieve his dream of becoming the world boxing champ. My Champion tells the story of the golden boy of Israeli boxing, from his first lonely steps in New York to his successes up the ranks, and finally the world championship match in Atlanta; a match that holds in the balance his boxing dreams, his identity, his pride, and finally, his life.
Also playing at Berlin Jewish Film Festival is THE KLEZMATICS: ON HOLY GROUND (BERLIN premiere).
*Official Selection Berlin Jewish Film Festival
Ever since their debut concert in 1988, the Klezmatics have stood at the heart of the klezmer revival underway since the 1970s. The New York-based, Grammy award-winning band has anchored the centuries-old melodies of Eastern Europe’s Ashkenazi Jews in the world music landscape. Following the band for four years, director Erik Greenberg Anjou documents the rise of a group whose sound transcends boundaries of language, faith and geography.
Screens on May 25th at 8:00 PM (KINO ARSENAL)
Click here for more information on BJFF.
Seventh Art finds 'Heaven'
It will release Wauer doc in North America
Tue., May. 3, 2011, 6:19pm PT
By Jennie Punter
TORONTO - Seventh Art Releasing has acquired North American rights to Britta Wauer's documentary "In Heaven, Underground: The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee" during the Hot Docs festival, the company announced Tuesday.
The doc, a portrait of the 100-acre, 130-year-old cemetery that remained in Jewish hands throughout Nazi rule in Germany, had its international preem at the fest on Sunday and world preemed in February at Berlin, where it won the Panorama audience award for doc.
Seventh Art, which has released notable Jewish titles such as Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, Love During Wartime and Surviving Hitler, plans a winter theatrical rollout for "In Heaven, Underground" following a fest circuit run.
Click here to read full article on the Variety website.
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day set aside for all of us to remember and learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. Learn more about the Holocaust and commemorate those that suffered, those that fought, and those that died by checking out our wide range of Holocaust films.
Specializing in Jewish Films, Seventh Art Releasing is known for its numerous award-winning Holocaust-related titles in the last 15 years: STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, a true-life love story that overcame impossible odds. MARION'S TRIUMPH, a harrowing story told through the eyes of a child inside one of Hitler's death camps. PHOTOGRAPHER, a mesmerizing account of the Lodz Ghetto in Poland Illustrated through slides photographed from that time. And the Academy Award nominated EYEWITNESS, a compelling examination of three artists who were forced to work in secret from within the Nazi death camps.
NO. 4 STREET OF OUR LADY tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, while cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer.
SONG OF THE LODZ GHETTO is a haunting musical program of street songs from the Lodz Ghetto serves as the backdrop of David Kaufman's definitive new film about the "first and last ghetto" in Poland. The film consists of chilling narrative, stirring concert performances, unforgettable photographs and extensive interviews with survivors of the Holocaust from Lodz.
Our most recent holocaust acquisition is SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE STORY. As a teenager in Nazi Germany, Jutta is shocked to discover she is Jewish. She joins the German resistance and meets Helmuth, an injured soldier. The two become sweethearts and soon co-conspirators in the final plot to assassinate Hitler.
*SPECIAL OFFER* -This year for Yom HaShoah, if you book or purchase one film we will give you an educational copy of The Fuehrer Gives the Jews a City for no additional charge! Just mention the title when booking and we'll include a copy for educational use.
Click here for or a full list of Seventh Art Releasing's Holocaust films.
