SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The 21stAnnual San Diego Jewish Film Festival will present Roberta Grossman as its first Real to Reel lecturer on January 9 at 7 p.m. at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre. Real to Reel is a lecture series that focuses on different aspects of filmmaking. Grossman is the director of Blessed is the Match: the Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, the San Diego Jewish Film Festival 2009’s Audience Choice Award-winner.
Grossman will present her unfinished film Hava Nagila and discuss her process, inspirations and behind the scenes stories. Grossman is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice. She has written and produced more than forty hours of documentary television. Grossman was the series producer and co-writer of 500 Nations, the eight-hour CBS mini-series on Native Americans hosted by Kevin Costner. Her feature documentary, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, premiered in February 2005, and has screened and won awards at more than forty festivals worldwide. It aired on public television stations in November 2005.
The Jewish Film Festival is sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus.
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Preceding provided by the Center for Jewish Culture