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Medical staff in PPE, as seen in 'Totally Under Control' documentary film (Courtesy of Neon)
Director interview
Whistleblower film shows Trump coronavirus response not ‘Totally Under Control’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Using unique filmmaking techniques, Suzanne Hillinger and colleagues uncover politically motivated decisions that ignore science and turn US handling of pandemic into chaotic mess
Medical staff in PPE, as seen in 'Totally Under Control' documentary film (Courtesy of Neon)
October 23, 2020, 12:33 am
Whistleblower film shows Trump coronavirus response not ‘Totally Under Control’
Using unique filmmaking techniques, Suzanne Hillinger and colleagues uncover politically motivated decisions that ignore science and turn US handling of pandemic into chaotic mess
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ma'aleh Film School created a competition for up to two-minute films about home, for creators from the world over (Courtesy of Ma'aleh)
October 15, 2020, 6:59 pm
Stuck at home? This film school wants you to make a movie about it
Creators from around the globe encouraged to send in films of up to two minutes
By Jessica Steinberg
Samuel L. Jackson taking part in a Benga initiation ceremony, Gabon. (AP Slave Ships Productions Ltd./Cornelia Street’s Ships Ltd.)
October 9, 2020, 10:40 pm
Samuel L. Jackson joins Israeli filmmaker in docuseries on global slave trade
In ‘Enslaved,’ now streaming in the US and from October 11 in the UK, director Simcha Jacobovici gathers an all-star team to delve into the roots of an unmemorialized genocide
By Jordan Hoffman
Ira Glasser speaks in this still from 'Mighty Ira.' (Courtesy)
October 2, 2020, 3:22 am
Film explores why a Jewish former ACLU head defended Nazis’ right to free speech
In ‘Mighty Ira,’ streaming Oct. 9, activist lawyer sticks to his guns about Skokie march, a defining moment of his 34-year career — and befriends a Holocaust survivor who opposed
By Jordan Hoffman
American gymnast Maggie Nichols as seen in 'Athlete A' (Netflix)
September 25, 2020, 4:35 pm
Netflix film ‘Athlete A’ puts spotlight on USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal
Documentarians Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen focus their lens on toxic culture that exploited and endangered young athletes, while protecting perpetrators for decades
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A photo of Oliver Sacks featured in the Ric Burns documentary, 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.' (Courtesy)
September 23, 2020, 4:53 am
With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die
Documentarian Ric Burns captures celebrated Jewish MD’s final days in a meditation on Sacks’s Orthodox youth, tumultuous career and acceptance of mortality. Film debuts Wednesday
By Rich Tenorio
HBO's McMillions (Courtesy)
August 4, 2020, 3:06 am
HBO doc on Hamburglar who stole millions in McDonald’s prizes gets 5 Emmy nods
‘A true-crime story that everyone’s involved in’: Series unpicks the absurd saga of a wildly popular decade-long Monopoly sweepstakes that almost no American legitimately won
By Jordan Hoffman
Sasha Joseph Neulinger as a young boy (Step 1 Films)
May 22, 2020, 8:27 pm
In ‘Rewind,’ abused nephew revisits home movies to cauterize cantor’s abuse
Sasha Joseph Neulinger ‘cleans out old wounds’ to heal from trauma inflicted by family members — including prominent Temple Emanu-El cantor uncle — and prolonged legal drama
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tel Aviv's City Hall will be lit up for this year's Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration on April 28, 2020, which will eschew fireworks and parades for a more modest festivities in honor of Israel's 72nd year of independence. (courtesy, City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
April 28, 2020, 3:05 pm
With countrywide closure during Independence Day, celebrations go online
All-day virtual marathons, Zoom parties, and film screenings on offer for Israel’s 72nd birthday, during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Jessica Steinberg
From left: Liron Matzas, Romy Abergel, Ofri Shemesh and Noam Kaniel from 'Transkids.' (Ohad Romano)
April 24, 2020, 1:41 pm
TV series follows Israeli transgender high schoolers as they approach IDF draft
Award-winning director Hilla Medalia films families for 4 years, exposing joy and pain of surgery and hormone therapy treating gender dysphoria during crucial adolescent period
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this file photo taken on May 20, 2009 Argentina's Public Prosecutor Alberto Nisman gives a press conference in Buenos Aires. January 18 marks the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Nisman,who had accused Iran of the attack on the Jewish mutual AMIA in 1994 and had denounced ex-president Cristina Kirchner in the case (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
January 17, 2020, 1:21 pm
Netflix docuseries revives debate over Argentine prosecutor’s death
‘The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy’ examines still unsolved death of Alberto Nisman after he accused then-president Kirchner of cover-up in 1994 bombing of Jewish center
By Liliana Samuel
Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)
December 17, 2019, 9:57 am
Israeli biopic about lawyer who represents Palestinians shortlisted for Oscars
‘Advocate,’ a documentary on Lea Tsemel, has won international critical acclaim but is deeply controversial back home
By TOI staff
The TrueFeatures team filming in Caesarea National Park, with Joe Mullings, left, and Harel Gadot, Executive Chairman and President of XACT Robotics Ltd.; Nov. 5, 2019 (Paige Marogil)
November 19, 2019, 12:15 pm
Documentary delves into growing weight of Startup Nation on med-tech scene
‘TrueFuture’ series, hosted and produced by Joe Mullings, aims to showcase life-saving technologies and the people behind them
Film director Daniel Roher takes a break from editing his new documentary, 'Once Were Brothers,' at the post-production studio in Toronto, Ontario, August 29, 2019. The film will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5. (Etye Sarner)
September 3, 2019, 4:03 am
26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival
On September 5, Daniel Roher’s latest documentary about a maverick musician, ‘Once Were Brothers,’ will make him one of the youngest filmmakers to open the prestigious event
By Robert Sarner
From 'Parasite,' the award-winning Korean film that will open the 36th Jerusalem Film Festival on July 25, 2019 (Courtesy PR)
July 4, 2019, 4:05 pm
Korean dark comedy ‘Parasite’ to open 10 days of Jerusalem Film Festival
200 screenings and other movie-related events kick off July 25 throughout the capital
By Jessica Steinberg
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