Witness Theater
Year: 2018
Country:
United States
Run Time:
75 minutes
As the last generation of Holocaust survivors dwindles, it is now more important than ever to capture their stories and to prevent their memories from dying with them. The Witness Theater program in New York City has done just that. Over the course of a school year, eight Holocaust survivors and 16 high school seniors collaborated in telling these invaluable stories. The survivors entrusted their life experiences to the students, and together they created a theatrical production for the community, depicting the survivors’ lives and the suffering they endured at the hands of the Nazis. For many of these survivors, this is the first opportunity they’ve had to share their stories with the world. Allowing us all to be witnesses, WITNESS THEATER is multifaceted storytelling at its finest. Created with tenderness, honesty, and the healing that comes from being heard, WITNESS THEATER is a transformative process for all involved, viewers included. —G.S.
CIFF43 Screenings
Thursday, April 04, 2019 at 6:15 PM
Cleveland Museum of Art - Gartner Auditorium
Friday, April 05, 2019 at 3:30 PM
Sidebar
Jewish and Israeli Visions
Competition
Local Heroes Competition
Director
Oren Rudavsky
Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His film, “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America,” was short-listed for the Academy Awards®, and his film, “Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust,” was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In addition to his acclaimed documentaries, Rudavsky’s other work includes writing and producing segments for the ABC national series PrimeTime Live, the PBS series Media Matters, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, the Bloomberg series Risktakers, and stints on Saturday Night Live and The Real World Season One.
Filmography
Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland (1986), At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today (1990), Saying Kaddish (1991), A Life Apart: Hasidism in America (1997), And Baby Makes 2 (1999), Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (2004), The Treatment (2006), To Educate a Girl (2010), Colliding Dreams (2015), The Ruins of Lifta (2016), Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (2018) – CIFF43, WITNESS THEATER (2018)
Producer
Oren Rudavsky
Editing
Zelda Greenstein
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