The 2022 AJFF Virtual Package includes 4 feature length films and one short for one great price! Learn about how The Fiddler on The Roof was transformed from a stage-hit to a big-screen epic; get ready to laugh to Love and Mazel Tov where a newly single gynaecologist pretends to be Jewish to impress the beautiful owner of a bookstore specializing in Judaica; buckle down for a serious drama in More Than I Deserve; dive into a history of Israeli folk music centred around star Ahuva Ozeri, and finally check out our endearing 27 minute short: Meadow!
Purchase your access by November 20 and you can watch at your leisure until January 2, 2023.
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humour and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).
The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
AWARDS:
- Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022
- Nominee of the Jury Prize at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022 (Documentary Feature: Daniel Raim)
- Winner of the Audience Choice Award 2022 at the Houston Film Festival (Best Film)
- Nominee of the Golden Heynal at the Krakow Film Festival 2022 (Best Music Documentary: Daniel Raim)
- Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the RiverRun International Film Festival 2022 (Best Documentary)
Sponsored by Israel Bonds
- Year2022
- Runtime88 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorDaniel Raim
- ScreenwriterDaniel Raim & Michael Sragow
- CastRobert F. Boyle, Jeff Goldblum, Rosalind Harris, Norman Jewison
The 2022 AJFF Virtual Package includes 4 feature length films and one short for one great price! Learn about how The Fiddler on The Roof was transformed from a stage-hit to a big-screen epic; get ready to laugh to Love and Mazel Tov where a newly single gynaecologist pretends to be Jewish to impress the beautiful owner of a bookstore specializing in Judaica; buckle down for a serious drama in More Than I Deserve; dive into a history of Israeli folk music centred around star Ahuva Ozeri, and finally check out our endearing 27 minute short: Meadow!
Purchase your access by November 20 and you can watch at your leisure until January 2, 2023.
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humour and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters).
The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.
AWARDS:
- Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022
- Nominee of the Jury Prize at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2022 (Documentary Feature: Daniel Raim)
- Winner of the Audience Choice Award 2022 at the Houston Film Festival (Best Film)
- Nominee of the Golden Heynal at the Krakow Film Festival 2022 (Best Music Documentary: Daniel Raim)
- Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the RiverRun International Film Festival 2022 (Best Documentary)
Sponsored by Israel Bonds
- Year2022
- Runtime88 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorDaniel Raim
- ScreenwriterDaniel Raim & Michael Sragow
- CastRobert F. Boyle, Jeff Goldblum, Rosalind Harris, Norman Jewison