Tag Archive: Film
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 [...]
{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, [...]
{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 [...]
Black, White, and Gray in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson
by Michael Bloom, Pleasantville High School student Paterson is a film that reminded me a lot of my favorite movie of 2016, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!. When taken at face value both movies seem to be about nothing. Their plots meander, they both feel at times repetitive, and they both have a time motif [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Launches New Creative Culture Initiative
Recognizing a gap in support for filmmakers in the Hudson Valley, Jacob Burns Film Center staff developed Creative Culture, a unique initiative designed to foster a thriving artistic community in the region. The goal of the program is to transform makers into strong and successful storytellers by strengthening their voice, providing a supportive network, and [...]
The Purchase Beat Reviews I Am Not Your Negro
By Kerby Marcelin, Purchase College Thank you to The Purchase Beat for allowing us to reprint this review. Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” acquaints the world with the architect in writer and social critic James Baldwin. An architect whose plan rests on his perspicuous, poignant, and thought-provoking words. Peck beautifies the [...]
The Big Shorts
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel One thing to love about Oscar season: we get to watch short films in theaters! And as always, these works are part of the 2016 Academy Awards action. The 15 films nominated this time around are being showcased in 4 separate film programs: Animation, Live Action, and Documentaries: Program [...]
Our Favorite Films of 2016 and Our Struggle to Explain Why We Love Them
By Sarah Soliman and Lori Zakalik, JBFC Marketing Department WARNING: We tried to make this post as spoiler-free as possible. To be safe, if there is a film on this list that you have not seen, trust us that it’s good, watch it, and then read what we had to say. American Honey Sarah: I [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Welcomes Ja’Tovia Gary as Artist-in-Residence
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced that artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary will spend the month of January on the JBFC campus as REMIX Artist-in-Residence. JBFC will screen An Ecstatic Experience before Losing Ground, a 1982 film directed by Kathleen Collins, which inspired Ms. Gary during the making of her short. “[My] film is [...]
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