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Several Jewish-themed films, filmmakers at Sidewalk Film Festival
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by Lee J. Green
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When the 20th annual Sidewalk Film Festival rolls in downtown Birmingham from Aug. 20 to 26, several feature and short films will have Jewish connections. Director Nathan Silver has films that have made it into several Sidewalk Film Festivals. His latest is “The Great Pretender,” which examines the lives of a French theatre director and her ex-boyfriend through the lens of the two actors who play them. This “tangled and darkly funny” movie is set in the New York City theatre world and offers much irony as well as plot twists. It will be screened at the Alabama School of Fine Arts on Aug. 25 at 5:45 p.m. The documentary “306 Hollywood” centers on two Jewish siblings on an archeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house. They embark on a “magical-realist” journey of what remains when one passes on, traveling from New Jersey to ancient Rome in search of the life remaining in objects that are left behind. The film will be screened at 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the Birmingham Museum of Art’s Steiner Auditorium. “Love, Gilda,” on Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. at the Alabama Theatre, is a documentary about Gilda Radner in the late Jewish comedienne’s own words. This film by Lisa Dapolito features recently-discovered audio tapes, interviews with Radner’s friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern-day comediennes such as Amy Poehler. Another documentary at Sidewalk, this one by Jewish director Billie Mintz, is an investigative work set in Las Vegas that exposes allegations of corruption with the Nevada Guardianship and Family Court System. “The Guardians” tackles “legal kidnapping of elderly people” by court-appointed guardians who take control over seniors’ healthcare and financial decisions. It will be at the Red Mountain Theatre Company Cabaret, Aug. 26 at 2:10 p.m. “Three Identical Strangers” tells the true story of three Jewish triplets who were adopted at birth by three different families and are reunited many years later. Secrets with radical repercussions are revealed when they all meet. Tim Wardle directs the film, which explores a controversial “nurture vs. nature” study coordinated by the Child Development Center in New York, using the Louise Wise Adoption agency to distribute twins and triplets to different families. The Center later merged with the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, which has tried to stonewall inquiries into the never-published experiment. The film will be at the Alabama Theatre on Aug. 25 at 12:15 p.m. Additionally, a couple of short films in the Sidewalk Film Festival’s first block of documentary shorts have some Jewish connections. They will screen at the Alabama School of Fine Arts on Aug 25 at 10:30 a.m. Joanne Feinberg directs “Broken/Fixed.” The film revolves around
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August 2018 • Southern Jewish Life 25