WORLD PREMIERE—An American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (Jewish Film Fest)
July 25, 2013 5:00pm
Summer's midpoint means it's time for two things in the Bay Area: wild blackberries and the San Francisco Jewish Film Fest (sfjff.org), opening tonight, July 18th.
Pirate Jenny speaks with Jackie Krentzman, originator and producer of An American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco. The documentary traces the route by which Jews, the "ultimate outsiders," not only became integral to their adopted city in the 19th Century, but also helped shape its design and its future. Jackie also discusses her own route by which she came to make the film, as a non-observant culturally Jewish journalism instructor, and how it changed some of her perceptions. And listeners get some peeks inside the process of documentary making, including some of the fascinating bits that had to be left out of the film.
An American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco has its world premiere Wednesday, July 31st, 6:15 at the Castro Theatre, and also screens Saturday, August 3rd, at CineArts in Palo Alto.
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival runs July 25th-August 11th in San Francisco, the East Bay, San Rafael, and Palo Alto.
PLAYLIST
Limonchiki - The Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Fly away יובל בן-עמי
Kamti Be-Ashmoret (I Rise At Dawn) - Cantor Isaac Algazi
Habanera de Zlabya - Olivier Daviaud
Le chat du rabbin - Olivier Daviaud
Modzitz tune from 1917 (Judaica Sound Archives)
California Here I Come (1924 ) - Al Jolson
Pirate Jenny speaks with Jackie Krentzman, originator and producer of An American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco. The documentary traces the route by which Jews, the "ultimate outsiders," not only became integral to their adopted city in the 19th Century, but also helped shape its design and its future. Jackie also discusses her own route by which she came to make the film, as a non-observant culturally Jewish journalism instructor, and how it changed some of her perceptions. And listeners get some peeks inside the process of documentary making, including some of the fascinating bits that had to be left out of the film.
An American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco has its world premiere Wednesday, July 31st, 6:15 at the Castro Theatre, and also screens Saturday, August 3rd, at CineArts in Palo Alto.
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival runs July 25th-August 11th in San Francisco, the East Bay, San Rafael, and Palo Alto.
PLAYLIST
Limonchiki - The Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Fly away יובל בן-עמי
Kamti Be-Ashmoret (I Rise At Dawn) - Cantor Isaac Algazi
Habanera de Zlabya - Olivier Daviaud
Le chat du rabbin - Olivier Daviaud
Modzitz tune from 1917 (Judaica Sound Archives)
California Here I Come (1924 ) - Al Jolson
