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Inventor Eddy Goldfarb is the subject of "Eddy's World," a documentary  in the 2023 Legacy Film Festival on Aging.
Posted inTV & Film

Legacy Film Festival spotlights ups and downs of elderly Jews

by Liz Harris December 27, 2022December 30, 2022

A 98-year-old toymaker takes you into his studio to discuss the joys of his craft. A San Francisco filmmaker turns the lens on his grandparents as they navigate their senior […]

Wallace Shawn and Elena Anaya in "Rifkin's Festival," directed by Woody Allen.
Posted inCulture

Is ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Woody Allen’s love letter to cinema — or something more cynical?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
From “Charlatan,” playing at this year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inTV & Film

S.F. Jewish film fest roars back into Castro — and online, too

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 2, 2021July 6, 2021
woman seated at table in art studio
Posted inCulture

Film festival on aging adds to its ‘Legacy’ and goes virtual

by Patricia Corrigan May 4, 2021
Still from “Shared Legacies:The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance” (Photo/Menemsha Films)
Posted inCulture

Film-speaker series to spotlight shared Black-Jewish values

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 29, 2020January 5, 2021
JCC Sonoma County's Israeli Film Festival will stream "Love in Suspenders" May 11-12.
Posted inTV & Film

Sonoma Israeli Film Festival goes online

by J. Staff May 4, 2020May 4, 2020
From "Picture of His Life," a documentary about photographer and Pacific Grove resident Amos Nachoum, which will screen at the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inTV & Film

Comedies and docs, fiddlers and polar bears: 2019 S.F. Jewish Film Fest ready to roll out the red carpet

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 10, 2019July 10, 2019
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

An ode to the line for the ladies’ room at the S.F. Jewish Film Fest

Sheri Cohen by Sheri Cohen July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
Lars Eidinger (left) in “The Bloom of Yesterday”
Posted inCulture

Berlin and Beyond fest features Holocaust and French resistance films

by J. Staff February 5, 2018March 23, 2018
"Jungle," starring Daniel Radcliffe, will make its West Coast premiere at Silicon Valley Jewish Film Fest on Oct. 21, 2017.
Posted inCulture

Premieres aplenty at Silicon Valley Jewish film fest, including Daniel Radcliffe flick

by Michael Fox October 16, 2017March 23, 2018

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