SLO County Jewish Film Festival
Saturday, January 21 - Sunday, January 22, 2012Online ticket sales now closed.
Please come at least 30 minutes early to the Palm Theatre to purchase your tickets!
2012 ScheduleSaturday, January 21
5pm: Opening Reception, Mama's Meatballs 7pm: Lifetime Achievement Award to Peter Rosen Screening of "Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler" | Sunday, January 22 11am: Screening of "The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America" 1pm-4pm: Jewish Jr Theatre at SLOMA 1:30pm: Screening of "The Bris" and "Losing Control" 5pm: Sponsors & Filmmakers Dinner at Ciopinot 7pm: Screening of "The Big Bris" and "The Matchmaker" |
2012 Film Guide
The Big Bris (short) (2011) 18 min - Short | Comedy | Family
Mo Green is a young aspiring comedian whose first big comedy gig falls on the same night as his circumcision ceremony. |
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler 88 min - Documentary | Biography | History 11 November 2011
Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, 'When I spoke with him, I can't believe, I'm talking to God'. Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius. The paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts - gifts he must honor, but which extract a life-long price. Is the man and the artist the same person? What is the price each pays? And who was the man behind the music? More Heifetz to enjoy... |
The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America
(2007) 75 min - Documentary
A documentary about a small group of South Americans long to affirm their faith. Their ancestors, European Jews, were forced to convert during the Spanish Inquisition. Isolated in Catholic countries, rejected by local Jewish communities, they battle to become Jews regardless of the consequences. |
Losing Control (2011)
LOSING CONTROL is a quirky romantic comedy about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is "the one." Written and Directed by Valerie Weiss, the film stars, Miranda Kent (CAMPUS LADIES), Reid Scott (MY BOYS, THE BIG C), Kathleen Robertson (BOSS, 90210), Lin Shaye (INSIDIOUS, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY), Steve Howey (SHAMELESS, REBA) and many other talented castmembers. |
The MatchmakerOnce I Was (original title) 112 min - Drama - 24 June 2010 (Israel)
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered. |