Eva’s Promise

Description

Official Selections
Montclair Film Festival
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
Chicago Jewish Film Festival
Jewish Federation of Northeastern NY

Synopsis

On a train to Auschwitz, 15-year-old Eva made a promise to her older brother Heinz. If he did not survive the camps, she promised to retrieve the paintings and poetry Heinz hid from the Nazis under the floorboards of an attic outside Amsterdam. Heinz Geiringer’s story is somewhat in the shadow of the better-known The Diary of a Young Girl. After the war, Eva became Anne Frank’s posthumous stepsister when her mother married Otto Frank. While the world knows Anne’s story, this film introduces Heinz, his artistry, and his sister’s efforts to find and share his remarkable legacy.

Producers

Susan Kerner & Steve McCarthy

Director

Steve McCarthy is an Emmy Award-winning network TV news producer and documentary filmmaker. A former staff producer for “60 Minutes”, “Dateline” and CNN, he formed McCarthy Productions, Inc in 2001 and produced projects for “60 Minutes,” “Dateline,” “Charlie Rose,” MSNBC, PBS, BBC America, Reuters, and others. In 2006 he directed an independent documentary film “Finding Paddy,” a documentary about 9/11 which aired in more than 20
countries. In 2016 he co-produced the documentary “The One That Got Away” which aired on PBS. In 2019 he co-directed and co-produced an HBO documentary about journalism through the life stories of Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin called “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists”. (Winner 2019 National Emmy) In 2019 he also co-produced the documentary feature “Life with Layla” about a New Jersey family caught in the grips of the opioid epidemic. In 2022, he directed and co-produced “Eva’s Promise”, about a Holocaust survivor’s promise to her brother to share his art should he not survive the concentration camps. McCarthy teaches documentary film and journalism at Montclair State University.