The Boston Jewish Film Festival
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| Location | Boston, United States |
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| Founded | 1989 |
| Language | International |
| Website | ukjewishfilm |
The Boston Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) is a non-competitive annual festival that screens the best contemporary films on Jewish themes from around the world. The festival presents features, shorts, documentaries, and conversations with visiting artists in order to explore the Jewish identity, the current Jewish experience and the richness of Jewish culture in relation to a diverse modern world.
Founded by filmmaker Michal Goldman in 1989, the Boston Jewish Film Festival has grown from 10 screenings to more than 60 throughout the Boston area (including Brookline, Newton, Somerville, and Cambridge venues (such as the Museum of Fine Arts and the Coolidge Corner Theatre). In the past 27 years, the Festival has presented more than 800 films - many of them US or Massachusetts premieres – and welcomed more than hundreds of thousands audience members. Many of the films that have been shown have gone on to be nominated for or win Academy Awards, including The Pianist (winner, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, 2002), Nowhere in Africa (winner, Best Foreign Film, 2002), and The Personals (winner, Best Short-Subject Documentary, 1998). Visiting artists are brought in from around the world to introduce their films, answer audience questions, and participate in panel discussions. The Festival also offers many live events, from pre-screening music, to new scores to accompany silent films, to full-fledged post-screening concerts and dance performances.
The Annual Festival is a non-competitive event, although since 2002 it has offered audience members the opportunity to cast ballots for favorite Documentary and Feature film and, in 2006, Favorite Short Subject. It screens International and American independent films and videos that highlight the Jewish experience; deal with themes of Jewish culture/heritage/history; and films of particular interest to the Jewish community. The Festival also presents narrative, documentary, animated and experimental works. Projects must be completed in 35mm, 16mm, Beta or 1/2 inch. They can be of any length, but must not have previously been screened in the Boston area.
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