[YSU-Jewish] Monday, September 11 Film Festival Films

[ysu-jewish at lists.ysu.edu]

Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12 pm
Citizen Stan (dir. by Patty Sharaf)
Youngstown Jewish Community Center at 505 Gypsy Lane

Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12 pm
Variations on a theme: To be An Israeli Woman (selected portions)
The Butler Museum of Art

Monday, September 11, 2006 at 4 pm
...More than 1000 Words (dir. by Solo Avital)
The McDonough Museum of Art

[See below for details on films and for Tuesday's films]
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Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12 pm
Citizen Stan (dir. by Patty Sharaf)
Youngstown Jewish Community Center at 505 Gypsy Lane

This documentry film, which is part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film 
Festival, tells the story of Stanley Shienbaum. In the 1950s at 
Michigan State University, Stanley Sheinbaum co-directs the Vietnam 
Project, but when he learns that the CIA is involved, and his people 
are torturing Vietcong prisoners, he quits in disgust. Disillusioned, 
Sheinbaum embarks on a lifetime of activism, organizing Daniel 
Ellsberg's defense during the Pentagon Papers trial, landing on Nixon's 
enemies list. In tales of intrigue, he bravely saves a colleague from 
the Greek junta, spars with LA Police Chief Daryl Gates, brings Arafat 
to the UN to denouce terrorism: Sheinbaum's life story holds the 
lessons of the history we share. Interviews with Robert Scheer, Daniel 
Ellsberg, Margaret Papandreou, former L.A. Police Chief Daryl Gates, 
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Warren Beatty. Narrated by Richard 
Dreyfuss. This film will again be screened at 4 pm at the McDonough 
Museum of Art on Wednesday, September 13. This event is free and open 
to the public. 

Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12 pm
Variations on a theme: To be An Israeli Woman (selected portions)
The Butler Museum of Art

This documentry film, which is part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film 
Festival, tells a saga about Israeli society from five feminine point 
of view: Regina from Lod, born in the Ukraine; Lea settler, from Ofra, 
born in Israel; Aziza from Shfar’am, born in Israel, Rebecca from 
Haifa, born in Ethiopia and Naomi from Ma’ale Adomim born in England. 
Each woman is an one hour-long variation of the theme. For this 
screening, only two portraits will be shown. This film will be screened 
in its entirety in the Jones Room in Kilcawley Center beginning at 10 
am on Wednesday, September 13. This event is free and open to the 
public.

Monday, September 11, 2006 at 4 pm
...More than 1000 Words (dir. by Solo Avital)
The McDonough Museum of Art

This documentry film, which is part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film 
Festival as well as part of the commemoration of September 11, tells 
the story of Ziv Koren, an Israeli photographer who has caputered 
images of terrorist attacks. The film will be screened again on 
Thursday, September 14 at 12 pm at the Butler Museum of Art. To see a 
trailer, please see http://www.happyzoda.com. This event is free and 
open to the public. 



Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Marti - the passionate eye (dir. by Shirley Horrocks)
Youngstown Jewish Community Center at 505 Gypsy Lane

”Marti” traces the dramatic personal story of Marti Friedlander, who 
was brought up in a Jewish orphanage in England, emigrated to New 
Zealand and became one of New Zealand’s greatest photographers. Marti’s 
story runs along side the major social changes that have happened to 
New Zealand during her lifetime. Marti will be screened again on 
Thursday, March 14 at 4 pm in the McDonough Museum of Art. This event 
is free and open to the public. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 12 pm
Short Films from Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival
The Butler Museum of Art

The following short films will be screened: being steven spielberg 
(dir. by Mike Kimmel and Dave Sontag) Jewz N the Hood (dir. by Joshua 
Stern) ‘Biaat Ha Massiah’ (In the Days of the Messiah dir. by Guy 
Dimenstein) The Unbroken Circle (dir. by John C. Ludwig) and Pituco 
(dir. by Alejandro Heiber). These films will again be screened on 
Friday, September 15 at 4 pm at the McDonough Museum of Art. For more 
on each of these films, click here. This event is free and open to the 
public. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 4 pm
Apart in this World (dir. By Mauricio Chernovetzky)
The McDonough Museum of Art

'Boris Babaev, an Orthodox Jew from Tajikistan, meets a secular Jewish 
Mexican-American filmmaker in Poland. This documentary is the result, a 
lyrical and contemplative piece, which captures Boris's struggle to 
find his place in the world. This event is free and open to the public. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7 pm
The Ritchie Boys (dir. by Christian Bauer)
Austintown Cinema
COST: $5 for non-students at the door ($2 with YSU student id)

Screened as part of the Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival, The 
Ritchie Boys is a moving and enlightening documentary about a group of 
German Jews who had escaped the Nazis as teenagers. They were trained 
at the deeply secret Camp Ritchie, Maryland, the birthplace of modern 
psychological warfare, formed an elite U.S. intelligence unit during 
WWII. 



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Helene J. Sinnreich, Ph.D.
Director, Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
330-941-1603
hjsinnreich at ysu.edu
www.ysu.edu/judaic