UK Jewish Film Festival

UK Jewish Film

Founder	Judy Ironside, President
Legal status	Registered charity (number 1072914)
Headquarters	London
Chief Executive Officer	Michael Etherton
Website	ukjewishfilm.org

The UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF) is an annual film festival dedicated to world cinema that focuses on Jewish life, history and culture worldwide. It was founded in 1997 and takes place in November, in London as well as other cities in the United Kingdom.

The festival is part of UK Jewish Film, a year-round organisation which also provides support and training to new and emerging filmmakers, and produces education events including exploring Holocaust, genocide, racism and interfaith themes with a variety of audiences including students and young people. Since 2011 UK Jewish Film has also organised the annual Geneva International Jewish Film Festival in Switzerland, and it presented a three-day film festival in Tel Aviv in April 2014. It was invited to programme the 2014 Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival.

UK Jewish Film, whose President is its founder, Judy Ironside, is chaired by Jonathan Lewis. Its chief executive officer is Michael Etherton.

Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE was the Festival's Honorary President from 1997 to 2005. As of 2014, he is the UKJFF Honorary Lifetime Patron. UKJFF's Honorary Patrons include Tim Angel OBE, Helen Bamber OBE, Dame Hilary Blume, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Simon Fanshawe, Vanessa Feltz, Sir Martin Gilbert, Michael Grabiner, Romaine Hart OBE, Sir Terry Heiser, Stephen Hermer, Samir Joory, Lia van Leer, Maureen Lipman CBE, Paul Morrison, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE, Selwyn Remington, Ivor Richards, Jason Solomons and Chaim Topol.