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Hope on the Water
This film was meant to document the Pink Lionesses’ dragon boat competition, but the event’s tragic overlap with the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack changed the course of their journey and the film.
Description
Official Selections/Screenings
Kansas City Jewish Film Series
Edmonton Jewish Film Festival
Rehoboth Beach Jewish Film Festival
Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival
Ovation
Or Chadash
Congregation Beth Jacob
Vassar Temple
Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival
Synopsis
This film was intended to be a follow-up to PADDLING FOR LIFE, documenting the international competition of the Pink Lionesses, a dragon boat team from Israel. However, the competition, scheduled for October 7, 2023, tragically coincided with the Hamas attack, altering the course of the team’s journey and the film itself.
Director
Judy Herbstein is a documentary film director, photographer, researcher, and producer with a MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, and another master’s degree in cinema from the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has lived and made news stories and documentary films in the United States, South Africa, and Israel. She won an Emmy Award for producing a series of video pieces for “The News Hour”, PBS filmed in Hebron (1996). In recent years she has been living in the North of Israel. She teaches filmmaking alongside continuing her work as a creative artist.
Additional information
| Director | Judy Herbstein |
|---|---|
| Length | 7 min |
| Release year | 2024 |
| Countries of origin | Israel |
| Subtitles | English |
| Genre | Short, Documentary |
Educational Pricing (DVD/Blu-Ray)
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