Feb 04 2010
Sacramento Jewish Film Festival 2010
The 2010 Sacramento Jewish Film Festival is February 6th (Saturday evening) and February 7th (Sunday Afternoon) at the Historic Crest Theater Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, CA. Free validated parking at 10th & L and also a light rail stop. For ticket info click on this link to Sacramento Jewish Film Festival. Phone 916-442-5189.
The Sacramento Jewish Film Festival takes place at the Crest Theatre every February. Tired of schlepping to the Bay Area for her annual Jewish film fix, co-founder Margi Park-Landau, Volunteer Coordinator, teamed with theatre Manager, Sid Heberger in 1997 and the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival was born.
Among the Festival’s goals are to seek out and present unique, humorous, powerful, touching and personal films from around the world which focus on the Jewish experience. Past offerings have included sensitive and sometimes controversial titles such as “A Trumpet in the Wadi” and “Trembling Before God”, award winning films such as “One Day Crossing” and “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” and humorous shorts such as “God @ Heaven”, “Gefilte Fish”, and “The West Bank Story”.
Celebrating a Bar Mitzvah year, the 2010 Sacramento Jewish Film Festival brings feature films from around the globe to the Crest Theatre. Four carefully chosen films represent the diversity of the Jewish culture: Israel, Argentina, Germany and America–rich with history, humor and passion.
Two opening night films emphasize the importance of inner beauty and self-worth. Award-winning Argentine director María Victoria Menis brings us “Camera Obscura”. We meet Gertrudis, an ugly duckling, who discovers her sensuality after an encounter with a nomadic French photographer. Later Saturday night, the Israeli comedy “A Matter of Size” presents four big guys who, while mastering the ancient sport of Sumo, learn to laugh and to love.
Jewish Comedy continues on Sunday with Aviva Kempner’s “Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg” –the amazing story of Gertrude Berg, creator of American’s first sitcom “The Goldbergs”. The filmmaker pays a loving tribute, combining rare scenes from “The Goldbergs”, interviews with fans including Norman Lear, Susan Stamberg, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and movie clips featuring the Marx Brothers and Zero Mostel. Award-winning Kempner has created a star-studded social history of an American trailblazer. Lastly, laughs and love bounce along with “Max Minsky and Me”. Nelly Sue Edelmeister, a supersmart, rail thin 12-year-old, desires to make the girls basketball team (so that she can travel to Luxembourg and meet her heart throb Prince Edouard) but her goal conflicts with her Bat Mitzvah preparations. This coming of age comedy will appeal to audiences of all ages.
