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San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

a black and white illustration of an old woman doing a crossword
Posted inTV & Film

Jewish Film Institute announces completion grants to ‘secure the future of Jewish storytelling’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 14, 2020
black and white image of a bearded man and long-haired woman talking to each other, with two other women and an ox cart in the background
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Film Festival revs up at the drive-in (and on your couch)

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

Jewish Film Institute receives emergency grant from motion picture academy

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 18, 2020May 19, 2020
The Castro Theatre, traditional epicenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy JFI-Barak Shrama)
Posted inTV & Film

40th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival postponed

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 16, 2020April 16, 2020
Still from the docuentary "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life," playing at Jewish Film Institute's WinterFest.
Posted inTV & Film

Big issues and controversial personalities star in S.F. Jewish film fest’s WinterFest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 11, 2020February 12, 2020
Kirk Douglas in 1950. (JTA/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

Kirk Douglas, movie star who reconnected to Judaism later in life, dies at 103

by Tom Tugend and JTA February 5, 2020February 6, 2020
(From left) Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Erika Andiola in the documentary “This is Personal”
Posted inFilm

S.F. Jewish Film Fest delves into intersectionality and the Women’s March

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat July 23, 2019July 24, 2019
Israeli photographer and activist Guy Hircefeld in "Guy Hircefeld, a Guy With a Camera" (Photo/El Dorado Films)
Posted inUncategorized

Documentary shorts at S.F. Jewish Film Fest focus on family heroes

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 19, 2019July 25, 2019
Scene from "The Picture of His Life," one of the movies screening at the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Posted inFilm

Underwater photographer dives deep to pursue his dream and heal his past

by Michael Fox July 19, 2019
Rabbi Chaim Bruk in “The Rabbi Goes West”
Posted inTV & Film

In new doc, a pioneering Chabad family moves to Montana, a land of few Jews

by Sue Fishkoff July 18, 2019

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