The Charlotte Jewish News - December 2011 - Page 13
Volunteers Drive Charlotte Jewish Film
Festival
The Charlotte Jewish Film
Festival started in 2005 with two
films shown in one evening. The
7th Annual Charlotte Jewish Film
Festival in 2011 sereened nine
films over 10 days to 1,800 atten
dees. This is remarkable growth in
a relatively short period of time.
What makes it even more remark
able is the faet that an event of this
magnitude is produeed purely by
volunteers. Eaeh year, volunteers
too numerous to eount eontribute
to bringing the best in Jewish film
from around the world to
Charlotte. This is no small feat.
Seleeting the films is an important
pieee of the puzzle but only one of
many that helps to ereate the high
quality film festival we have eome
to expeet and love here in
Charlotte.
It takes time...and money
Onee the festival ends in Mareh
of eaeh year, there is little rest for
the dedieated volunteers. Planning
for the following year must start
quiekly. This ineludes fund raising
to support the festival whieh is
quite a eostly undertaking.
Despite the generous support of
Hadassah, the Levine JCC, the
Arts and Seienee Couneil, and the
Jewish Federation of Charlotte,
additional funds are needed eaeh
year to purehase the films, rent the
sereening venues, print promo
tional materials and maintain a
website, bring in value-added
speakers and present a delieious
opening night reeeption.
Corporate sponsors, eommunity
partners, and private patrons all
eontribute greatly to the sueeess of
the festival. If you would like to
help support the 8th Annual
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival,
either as a eorporate sponsor or
individual patron, please eontaet
Mike Lieberman at mlieber47@
hotmail.eom.
...and lots ofpeople power
The last few weeks leading up
to the festival are a frenetie time.
There are always lots of last-
minute details to finalize despite
the previous months of prepara
tion. And then it is show time ...
and the work has just begun.
There is no rest for the weary dur
ing the 10 days of the festival.
Volunteers help staff the tieket
table, man the doors, hand out
program books, pester our patrons
to fill out those surveys, set up,
break down, transport speakers to
and from the airport, and whatev
er else eomes up (and there is
always something!). Needless to
say, lots of people and many hours
go into making the festival a huge
sueeess. If you would like to be a
part of the team in 2012, please
eontaet volunteer eoordinator
Laurie Sparks at laurie.sparks@
yahoo.eom.
Mark your calendars...
For the 8th Annual Charlotte
Jewish Film Festival, February 25
through Mareh 11, 2012. This
year’s Festival will onee again
illuminate the global Jewish expe-
rienee with world-elass films that
are not otherwise available here in
Charlotte. Cheek out our website,
www.eharlottejewishfilm.eom, in
January for the full line-up of
films and speeial events.
The Charlotte Jewish Film
Festival is brought to you by the
Levine JCC and the Charlotte
Chapter of Hadassah, and is made
Last Chance to Mail in
Your Hadassah Blue Form
Want to be ineluded in the
2012 Charlotte Area Jewish
Community Direetory and help
fund medieal researeh?
It’s easy. That blue Hadassah
information form sitting on your
kitehen eounter, desk, or tueked
inside your day planner is your
tieket to making miraeles happen
but only if you fill it out and send
it in. Funds raised from the sale of
the Charlotte Area Jewish
Community Direetory support
Hadassah programs ineluding
medieal researeh.
Help us to inelude you in the
2012 Charlotte Area Jewish
Community Direetory and assure
the aeeuraey of your information
by returning your blue direetory
form this week.
New in town? Lost the blue
form? No problem. Just visit our
website at www.eharlottehadas-
sah.org or piek up a form at the
Sandra and Leon Levine Jewish
Community Center reeeption
desk.
Hadassah thanks all who have
mailed in your forms. We are
grateful for our returning patrons
and advertisers as well as our new
supporters.
Have questions? Call Tess
Berger at 704-708-4857.^
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