It's a Wrap!!!
The 15th annual Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival completed an amazing run with wonderful films and programs from March 27 through April 13, 2008. Festival screenings were held at the SouthSide Works Cinema, The Manor in Squirrel Hill,  Carmike Theaters in the South Hills, Cranberry and Greensburg, at Pittsburgh Filmmaker’s Regent Square Theater and Melwood Screening Room and at our first-ever screening on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

Our Opening Night celebration in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday was a highlight with a sold-out audience of over 400, the heartwarming Israeli film “Noodle,” delicious food and Israeli dancing. The Festival continued with 25 more films and hosted two filmmakers, Doron Benvenisti (“Bittersweet”) and Diane Crespo (“Arranged”). In addition to attending the Festival, they led workshops at the University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The Festival also welcomed New York City comic Marion Grodin, who had the standing room only crowd howling before the screening of “Making Trouble.”

The Festival’s "Teen Screen" program showed three films to more than 1,300 students at free matinee screenings for school groups.

New this year, the Festival launched a program called “Reel to Real: Generation to Generation” where teens and seniors came together to watch films and discuss them afterwards. The program was a big success and we hope to continue it for many years.

We're nothing without you.
The Festival would like to thank its committee of volunteers, as well as all of its supporters and audience members. The Festival would not exist without your generosity!

See you at the movies!
In addition to the 16th annual Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, set for March 12 - 29, 2009, please look for exciting film screenings throughout the rest of 2008. If you are not on our mailing list, please sign up for it by clicking here.

It has been our pleasure to bring you the best in Jewish film.

Sincerely,

Kathryn Spitz Cohan         Suzi Neft
Executive Director             Assistant Director