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Film Stories
Continued from preceding page
shown on public broadcasting
stations at Passover time, is
built around an Egyptian-
Jewish seder. The film takes
its title from the grand-
mother's frequent references
to the sun of Egypt and the
warmth of the close communi-
ty in which she grew up.
The more Halawani became
interested in her family's
background, the more she felt
the need to go further. She is
now working on a feature-
length documentary on the
history of Egypt's Jews. "The
process of making this film
has been an odyssey for me,"
Halawani said. "I went to
Egypt to retrace my heritage,
and found the synagogues,
prayer and relics of a once
culturally wealthy society.
The remaining 200 Jews in
Cairo and Alexandria are
mostly old and poor. I set up
a fund to help them?'
Lily Rivlin is another film-
maker fascinated by her fami-
ly's history. She made The
Tribe which documents a reu-
nion in Jerusalem of 2,500
members of the 10,000-strong
Rivlin clan. Through archival
footage, narration and inter-
views, the filmmaker traces
the history of the family from
17th century Prague to 20th
century everywhere.
Rivlin subsequently be-
came interested in doing
films about Jewish feminism.
She made
Miriam's
Daughters Now, a film about
women celebrating Jewish
festivals together. She would
like to do one about the rela-
tionship between a Jewish
and an Arab woman, but fun-
ding it has proven to be a vir-
tually hopeless obstacle.
Explorations of American
Jewish life have proven fruit-
ful for a number of women
filmmakers. Number Our
Days, the 1976 Academy
Award winner for best short
documentary, concerns the
elderly Jewish community of
Venice, Calif., as seen
through the eyes of an-
thropologist Barbara
Meyerhoff and filmmaker
Lynn Littman.
Meyerhoff and Littman
subsequently became in-
terested in exploring the Or-
thodox community of Los
Angeles' Fairfax district.
While the film was in produc-
tion, Meyerhoff learned she
had cancer. The discovery
brought her to evaluate her
feelings about Jewish tradi-
tion as she faced death, which
resulted in the moving In Her
Own Time.
Recently, several women
filmmakers took part in an
evening of discussion spon-
sored by the Jewish Museum
and United Jewish Appeal
Federation of New York's task
force on Jewish women.
Among the panelists was
Joan Micklin Silver, director
of the recent hit feature
Crossing Delancey, which
starred Amy Irving. "I had
been writing for educational
films for years!' Silver said,
"but I wanted to direct and I
found it impossible to break
through that barrier against
women directors!" Eventually,
her husband, a real estate
developer, agreed to help her
financially with the $370,000
Hester Street, starring Carol
Kane as a Jewish immigrant
woman battling for self-
liberation. It enjoyed a
modest success in the
mid-1970s and led to Silver's
making Crossing Delancey.
The diversity of Jewish in-
terest films produced by
women was evident recently
at a film festival sponsored by
the Jewish Women's Resource
Center of the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, in
cooperation with the UJA-
Federation task force. Among
the most popular films shown
was Anou Banou: The
Daughters of Utopia, directed
by Edna Politi.
Another film at the festival
was the 20-minute Yudie, in
which a woman in her
mid-70s talks with warmth
and humor of her life as a
member of a New immigrant
family in the early years of
the century. One interesting
outgrowth of the film is the
unique success story of Yudie.
The film was made by Mirra
Bank Brockman, who set out
only wanting to record her
Aunt Yudie. But Aunt Yudie
proved to be a natural, and
shortly after the film ap-
peared, she was snapped up
for films, television roles and
commercials. Among her list
of credits are roles in Brighton
Beach Memoirs. ❑
I FINE ARTS
Mystical Exhibit
Opens At JCC
The Jewish Community
Center will hold an art show
and sale from Sunday evening
through Oct. 12 at the Maple-
Drake Building. The _show
will feature works of artists
from Safad, Israel. All of the
artists are religious and their
works are influenced by
Jewish mysticism.
Artists include Nechama
Weiss, who pioneered micro-
graphic Judaica, combining a
highly-developed and techni-
cal art form with Jewish
scriptural themes; David
Friedman, a Torah-scholar;
Yehudit Abinum, hand-
painted ketubot; Baruch
Nachshon, the Chasidic artist
dealing with exile.