The 2009 West Virginia Jewish Film Festival will be presented on Sunday, January 11th, at 5 PM at The Park Place Stadium Theaters in downtown Charleston. Admission is FREE and open to the public. The films will be the following – at 5 PM the new commercial film, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. 7 PM “The Secrets” The first film will be showing commerically at the Park Place opening on Friday, January 9th. The second film is a new film, just opening in New York City. Funding for this event is provided by Federated Jewish Charities of Charleston.
For more than a decade, the WVJFF has been presenting new films at The Park Place Cinemas with the theater and projection provided FREE by The Greater Huntington Theater Corporation headed by Derek Hyman. Dr. Fred Pollock is the president of the WVJFF. He and his wife attended the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, scouting for films to show in Charleston.
As film advisor to the series since 1979, I have been previewing many new Jewish films including “Strangers,” ( new film about Palestinian woman and Israeli man getting together in Berlin during the World Cup), “Children of the Sun” ( a new doc about the first kibbutzim in Israel), “Sixty Six” (about a boy’s barmitzvah in London the year England unexpectedly made it to the World Cup), “A Cantor’s Tale” (about an American cantor raised in NYC) and most intensely, “My Father, My Lord” (about a Jewish family in Israel, filmed with truly an invisible camera.) There is a vast ocean of Jewish cinema available, most famously shown at the world’s largest Jewish film festival in San Francisco. Pollock & Friends also plan on a spring or summer Jewish film night, time and place undecided at this time. For more info, contact me at mystery12@suddenlink.net.
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