Tag Archive: Education
Announcing the World Premiere of "Us"
By Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow Last week, Champ Ensminger, premiered his incredible and much-anticipated music video, Us. Champ was the Spring 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow here at the JBFC. The video is currently enjoying an international release online through well-known music-magazine, The FADER. Uswas created in close collaboration with Westchester resident and musician, Zach Cooper. [...]
Presenting Widely Acclaimed Short Doc "Unmappable"
By Karolina Manko, Communications Manager Unmappable is a documentary short, created by Jasmine Luoma and JBFC Faculty memberDiane Hodson, that weaves together the life and work of iconoclastic psycho-geographer and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood. This meditative portrait unveils the inner workings of a man whose work is lauded as poetic, artful and innovative – [...]
Created Equal: Image, Sound, and Story
By JBFC Education Director Emily Keating In many ways, this feels like the second in a series- a follow up to a post I wrote last July that shared my experience representing the JBFC at the Turnaround Arts National Leadership Retreat in Airlie, VA. But it’s not the type of sequel that requires having read [...]
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at the JBFC! Enjoy this adorable, stop motion animated popcorn love story, made by fourth graders at the <a href="http://tae nolvadex online canada.portchesterschools.org/” target=”_blank”>Thomas A. Edison School in Port Chester as part of our Minds in Motion program. Last year nearly 1,000 fourth graders in schools and community organizations [...]
Congratulations Tara Clune!
By JBFC Marketing Assistant Sarah Soliman Former Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellow, Tara Clune, has been selected as a Sundance Ignite Fellow. In keeping with their commitment to emerging voices in film, this new initiative from the Sundance Institute focuses on young independent filmmakers, age 18-24. As part of her year-long fellowship, Tara will [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
By Karolina Manko, Communications Manager If you’ve ever heard the story of Cinderella or Rapunzel then you’ve heard a story by the Brothers Grimm. In fact, many of the most beloved folktales that have permeated through our culture come from the story-collections of the Brothers Grimm. Who were they? Two 19th century German brothers who travelled [...]
Media Literacy Week: what to do?!
By Emily Keating, Director of Education Congratulations to the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) on its FIRST EVER US Media Literacy Week. I was honored to join NAMLE’s Leadership Council last year as this initiative was just an idea and I can’t be more proud of my colleagues in following through and soaring above every [...]
Pumpkin Revenge
Pumpkin Revenge is a short film made by our third and fourth grade Experiments in Media workshop. The focus of the workshop was isolating color. The students shot the film in black and white and then picked one object to convert to color. The result? This spooky Halloween treat!
What Malala Can Teach Us All About Education
By JBFC Student Critic Caleb Feinstein Most teens today don’t imagine themselves risking their lives to stand up for thousands of people they don’t even know, but that’s exactly what one girl in Pakistan did. Malala Yousafzai grew up in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, the daughter of a private school teacher, diplomat, and public [...]
Introducing Reweina Tessema: Fall 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow
By Reweina Tessema, Fall 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow My appreciation for film has been obvious from a young age. However, my direct involvement in filmmaking was developed much later. If you told me in 2009, when I graduated high school, that I’d be pursuing a career in filmmaking after college I’d most likely say, “Awesome! So [...]
JBFC Announces Ticket Price Reduction for Family Programs
All tickets $5 starting in April
Big Screen, Big Movies: A Celebration of the Cinema Epic
Now Showing through April 20
Jewish Film Festival 2025
Apr. 23–29: Tickets on Sale Now