The Celebration is a
“Greatest Hits” of the
World’s Jewish Film Festivals

THE CELEBRATION
Listed below are links to the participating festivals and the films they have selected for the Celebration.


Selected film: Time of Favor


Selected film: Island On Bird Street


Selected film: Avanti Popolo


Selected film: The Dunera Boys


Selected film: Trees Cry For Rain,
Pillar Of Salt


Selected films: Intimate Stranger,
Nobody's Business, The Sweetest Sound


Selected film: The Photographer
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Selected film: Trembling Before G-d
THE PROGRAM
Seven international Jewish Film Festivals have agreed to be presenters at the first year of the Las Vegas Celebration of Jewish Film. The participating Festival directors have each selected one Jewish film that has previously screened at their respective festivals in order to present that same film at the Celebration. These selections reflect the individual vision and spirit of the participating festivals.

The Jewish Film Festivals that have agreed to attend as presenters include Brighton, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Miami, New York Sephardic, San Francisco and Toronto. The Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival, the host of the Celebration, has also selected a film to present at the event.

The participating Festival directors will introduce their selected film in person and share information about the achievements and goals of their individual festival. Filmmakers of the presented films will also be present.

A subsidized touring package entitled the Traveling Jewish Film Festival will be comprised of films presented at the Celebration and will be made available to other cities that do not currently have their own Jewish film festival. Along with the touring package, consultation and support services will be made available to those communities wishing to begin the groundwork of establishing their own Jewish film festival.

Seven new festivals will be invited to present at the Celebration in subsequent years. Representatives from all the other existing Jewish film festivals are encouraged to attend the event.
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LOCATION/DATES

Premier Event was held January 17-22, 2002 over the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend.

The Las Vegas Celebration of Jewish Film will take place in the Century 16 Theatres at the Suncoast Hotel & Casino.

For more information, please call:
(702) 562-8611
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BACKGROUND
The Celebration is one of three elements that comprise the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival (LVJFF).
The first element is an ongoing series of Jewish content films that are being presented to the Las Vegas community and are programmed by Joshua Abbey, the Program Director of the LVJFF and Betsy Cowan, the Managing Director of the LVJFF.
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The second element is the Celebration itself, which was conceived by Joshua Abbey, the Program Director of the LVJFF.
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The third element is the Traveling Jewish Film Festival, which was conceived by Betsy Cowan, the Managing Director of the LVJFF.

The three festival organizers work together to insure the success of each of the elements.

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