The costs of completing the documentary A 20th Century Passion include editing time, colour correction and sound mix. (screenshot) A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to bring to the big screen a documentary about the late Peter Gary, a Hungarian-born…
Grant Gochin in J’Accuse!, which can be screened online as part of the South African Film Festival Nov. 2-12. (screenshot) The award-winning film J’Accuse! is about the alliance between Grant Gochin, a Jewish activist for Lithuanian Holocaust truth, and Silvia Foti, the…
Filmmaker Sam Green will narrate live his documentary 32 Sounds, which is part of the Vancouver International Film Festival. (photo by Catalina Kulczar) “There’s a thing in documentary filmmaking where, after you’ve done an interview with someone, you need to…
A still from the film Kidnapped, which is set in 19th-century Italy. In it, a 6-year-old Jewish child is abducted by papal soldiers who inform his parents that the boy was secretly baptized by a maid. If they want him…
Zanna Linskaia and Rudy Rozanski were key in making the video Burquest Jewish Community: Past, Present, Future, which is available on YouTube. (screenshots) Burquest Jewish Community, which serves people in the eastern suburbs of Vancouver, turns 50 next year. Whether…
Screenshot from Jordan Amit’s video on the former Jewish settlement of Edenbridge, Sask. The synagogue and the Jewish cemetery are cared for by the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation. Almost 120 years ago, 56 Jews fled Lithuania and ended up in a…
Pets & Pickers producer Tyson Hepburn confers with Regional Animal Protection Society chief executive officer Eyal Lichtmann during the film shoot. The Regional Animal Protection Society (RAPS) in Richmond operates a cat sanctuary, a fostering network, thrift stores and a…
Laura Leibow is one of the 14 comics featured on The New Wave of Standup, now streaming on CBC Gem. (photo by Emily Cooper) The whole thing was a highlight really! I still kind of had that post-COVID ‘I can’t…
Igal Hecht filming Secrets of the Land. (photo from Chutzpa Productions Inc.) The Western Wall area, with thousands of metres of subterranean space, contains much that is yet to be discovered. The latest find in this space is a market.…
Jacob Balshin (photo by Emily Cooper) Just For Laughs Vancouver and CBC have announced that original series The New Wave of Standup is returning for Season 3 beginning March 24 on the free CBC Gem streaming service. The third season…
