The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2013 - Page 28
9th Charlotte Jewish Film Festival in March
The 9th Annual Charlotte Jew
ish Film Festival is just around the
eomer. Mark your ealendars for
Mar 2-17 when the best in Jewish
einema from around the world
eomes to the Queen City. The
award-winning films run the
gamut from doeumentary to fea
ture-length drama to romantie
eomedy. The festival is pleased to
present a ehildren’s film and pro
gram for the first time ever. In ad
dition, our neighbors to the north
in Lake Norman will be sereening
three films this year. As in past
years, there is an All-Festival Pass
that gives you aeeess to all tiek-
eted films (ineluding the Lake
Norman fiieks) at a great savings.
Right now the All-Festival Pass
ean be purehased for just $75, a
savings of $40. The eost will go
up to $85 after January 20, so
don’t delay, get yours today and
enjoy all the films for an unbeliev
ably low priee. Tiekets ean be
purehased at www.eharlottejew-
ishfilm.eom. If you don’t feel
eomfortable navigating the inter
net, feel free to stop by the
Levine-Sklut Judaie Library dur
ing their normal hours and some
one ean help you with the
eomputer purehase. Also, tiekets
will be sold on January 13 in the
Levine JCC lobby from 10 AM-
1:30 PM and on February 24 from
12 noon-3 PM. If you have en
joyed the Festival in the past, we
thank you for your support and
look forward to seeing you again
this year. If you have yet to par
take of what has beeome a eultural
gem of the Charlotte arts seene,
we hope you will eome find out
why the CJFF was voted Best of
the Best for Film Festivals by the
readers of Charlotte Magazine.
Whether it is date night, girls’
night out or a playdate, the Char
lotte Jewish Film Festival is sure
to have something for you.
Saturday, March 2, 7:30 PM,
Temple Israel, Opening Night
Bash, $25
Hava Nagila
Sponsor: Charlotte Chapter of
Fladassah
An entertaining, upbeat explo
ration of the song that defines the
Ameriean Jewry (see sidebar for
full story). Speeial appearanee by
Direetor Roberta Grossman.
Sereening followed by profession
ally eatered dessert reeeption and
musieal entertainment.
Sunday, March 3, 7 PM, Tem
ple Israel, $10
Wunderkinder
The moving story of three ex-
eeptional ehild prodigies who are
foreed to use their musieal skill,
undying friendship, and an abun
dant amount of eourage to try to
survive a grown up world gone
mad.
Tuesday, March 5, 7 PM,
Temple Israel, $8
The Other Son
Sponsor: Temple Israel
Switehed at birth, two teens, an
Israeli and a Palestinian, are
foreed to question their identities.
Wednesday, March 6, 7 PM,
Temple Israel, $8
In Heaven Underground
Sponsor: Flebrew Cemetery
The LA Times ealled it a “play
ful, poetie and all-around eharm-
ing” look at the 130-year-old
Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, the
largest Jewish eemetery still in use
in Europe.
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 PM,
Ballantyne Village Theater, $10
Paris-Manhattan
Sophie is a single 30-some-
thing living in Paris who is totally
obsessed with Woody Allen: she
quotes his work, reeommends his
films to eustomers and even has
eonversations with him (via his
poster on her wall.
Sunday, March 10, 3 PM, Bal
lantyne Village Theater, $8
The Day 1 Saw Your Heart
Justine learns how eomplieated
families are when her 60-year-old
father reveals that his young see-
ond wife is expeeting.
Sunday, March 10, 7 PM, Bal
lantyne Village Theater, $10
Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Sponsor: Temple Beth-El
A message in a bottle leads to
an engrossing email exehange be
tween a 17-year-old Israeli girl
and a 20-year-old Palestinian boy.
Tuesday, March 12, 7 PM,
Sam Lemer Center at the JCC, $8
Follow Me: The Yoni Ne
tanyahu Story
Yoni Netanyahu hated war but
loved his eountry and as leader of
the seemingly impossible sueeess-
flil Raid on Entebbe, tragieally be-
eame the only Israeli easualty.
Saturday, March 16, 7:30
PM, Sam Lemer Center at the
JCC, $10
Dorfman
Deb Dorfman (Sara Rue) is a
20-something Jewish girl who
lives in LA with her erotehety old
father (Osear-nominated Elliott
Gould) but yearns to take eharge
of her somewhat out of eontrol
life.
Sunday, March 17, 3 PM,
Sam Lemer Center at the JCC, $8
My Best Enemy
In the style of Inglourious Bas-
terds eomes an ineredible tale
filled with mistaken identity, in
ternational intrigue, romanee, be
trayal, and dramatie plot turns.
Sunday, March 17, 7 PM,
Sam Lemer Center at the JCC,
$10
AKA Doc Pomus
Sponsor: Levine JCC
Jerome Felder (AKA Doe
Pomus) was a self-deseribed “fat
Jewish boy with polio” who be-
eame one of the most prolifie
songwriters in history (“Viva Las
Vegas,” “Save the Last Danee For
Me,” and “This Magie Moment”
to name just a few).
The Charlotte Jewish Film Fes
tival is brought to you by the
Levine JCC and the Charlotte
Chapter of Fladassah, and is made
possible, in part, with funding by
the Arts & Seienee Couneil and
the North Carolina Arts Couneil,
an ageney of the Department of
Cultural Resourees, and the Na
tional Endowment for the Arts,
whieh believes that a great nation
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For more on
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please see
the story on
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CJDS pointed me In the
Elyssa Gorelkk. Sophomore
U. of South Carolina, Elementary Ed.
This pa&f spRlng, I spent
seveRal weeks student
te^^chlng at UDS.
I was thrilled to work with many
of the same teachers who had
cultivated my own love of
learning. In fact, my dream of
becoming a teacher first took root
in my second grade year at GDS,
That dream is now blossoming for
me, as I pursue a college degree
in Elementary Education,
As a student at CJDS, I
enjoyed a stimuiatlng
iearning environment which
encouraged creativity,
independence, and a passion
for Judaism. When I ieft CJDS,
I was weii prepared for middle
school. It is so satisfying to
witness today's kids
benefitting from those very
same qualities.
Charlotte Jevi/lsh
3 Day School
704.366.4558 'WWW.CJDSCHOOL.org
A strong academic foundation for living Jewishly.