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All things JAZZ!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Are you ready? You are not going to want to miss the amazing selections in this year’s Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera series, May 18–June 22, including five rousing films and four live performances! We kick things off by celebrating the incomparable Satchmo! Will Friedwald, longtime friend of the Burns, [...]
Taking A Front Seat At The Art House Cinema
By Sophie Cowley With the mounting success of streaming platforms and the ever-growing convenience of personal devices like tablets and iPhones, some believe that the cinema is becoming a thing of the past. But the Jacob Burns Film Center heartily disagrees. Why Art House? When you arrive at an art house like the Jacob Burns, [...]
Curtains Up
By Dotty Battel, JBFC Marketing Volunteer “The play’s the thing…” William Shakespeare is not the only one to feel that way…we do too (about film as well!). That said, we are giving a standing ovation to Life on the Stage: Conversation and Film, a new dynamic film series created in collaboration with The Actors Fund. [...]
Late Nights at the JBFC
By Andrew Jupin, Senior Programmer You might notice that there are films showing up in our schedule that are only screening late at night. We started this last month with a week of late-night screenings for the fantastically entertaining, Polish mermaid musical, The Lure. If you missed it, I can’t recommend it enough; you should [...]
Greenhouse: Courageous Filmmaking in Progress
By Sigal Yehuda, director, Greenhouse Documentary Development Program Radicalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, refugees, immigration, and discrimination are all disputes we have been exposed to, especially in recent years. These issues are all perpetuated by separation between populations, and is often sustained and encouraged by political leaders, media, education, and extremists of all sorts. We would like [...]
The Pi(e) of March
Pi Day, celebrated annually on March 14 aka 3.14, is a day to appreciate two wonderful things: math and pie (not necessarily in that order)! In honor of Pi Day, enjoy this short film, Life of Pie, made by Summer @ the Lab students. More Pi Day films made by JBFC student filmmakers can be found here [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} A Recycled Orchestra
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ilani Denzer In a town that is home to Paraguay’s main landfill Favio Chavez, a resourceful ganchero, and many determined children came together and formed the Landfill Orchestra of Cateura. Here 40% of the youth don’t finish school because their parents need them to pick garbage in the landfill to [...]
JBFC Fellow's Film Added to WJFF 2017
By Paige Grand Pré, Education Communications Associate The JBFC is thrilled to announce that the recently-completed short documentary Kitty and Ellen will screen in advance of A Jewish Girl in Shanghai as part of our 2017 Westchester Jewish Film Festival. Kitty and Ellen was directed by Leah Galant, our Fall 2016 Sally Burns Shenkman Woman Filmmaker Fellow, [...]
From Stage to Screen: The Lion in Winter
by Andrew Jupin, Senior Programmer There are few things riskier in the world of filmmaking than adapting a stage play to the screen. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve dreaded sitting for something I know in advance is based on a play. Often it feels like what you’re watching is so much better [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} Landfill Harmonic
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ty Amsterdam Landfill Harmonic is an uplifting documentary that has such an incredible storyline, it could almost seem fictional! The film takes place in Cateura, a town in Paraguay where most of the residents try to find work at the garbage dump. We follow Favio Cháves, who decided to inspire [...]
