Foundation for Jewish Culture Name 5 for 0K in Finishing Funds
Five films have received finishing funds from the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2010 documentary program with a total of $ 140,000 given. This year’s grantees of the foundation’s Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film include: Joann Sfar Draws From Memory (US/France, directed and produced by Sam Ball), a portrait of a French-Algerian graphic novelist; Regarding Susan Sontag (US …
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Dahl to present Mrs Beeton show
Sophie Dahl is to present a documentary about the life of pioneering cookery writer Mrs Beeton.
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Bill Dwyre: Documentary captures force of nature that was Vince Lombardi
HBO production depicts what the legendary Green Bay coach was: a bear with brains, a bully beloved by nuns. In football, his genius was to perfect a few things and minimize the complicated stuff. For much of the 1960s in the state of Wisconsin, there was a shared deity. There was the incumbent and there was Vince Lombardi.
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