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Jewish Presence At Detroit Dow

Approximately 100 films from all
over the world will be featured at
this year's Detroit Docs
International Film Festival.
In addition to a full day of Jewish
programming on Sunday, Nov. 14,
at the Uptown Birmingham 8,
Jewish filmmaker Harvey Ovshinsky
of Ann Arbor will receive the festi-
val's first-ever Career Achievement
Award.
Ovshinksy will be
honored Thursday,
Nov. 11, at the festi-
val's Gala Kickoff
Party, running 7-10
p.m. at the Wayne
State University
Welcome Center on
Woodward Avenue;
admission is free.
Harvey
From noon-2 p.m.
Ovshinsky
Sunday, Nov. 14, a
retrospective of
Ovshinksy's work
will be shown at
WSU's Bernath Auditorium in the
David Adarnany Undergraduate
Library; he also will conduct a
workshop on "How to Produce a
Successful Career in Documentary
Filmmaking."
Ovshinsky, a Detroit Mumford
High School graduate, attended
WSU in the mid-1960s, where he
published The Fifth Estate, one of
the country's first underground
newspapers. He currently owns and
operates HKO Media, a consulting
and production company in Ann
Arbor.
The following films will be shown
at the Uptown Birmingham 8 dur-
ing Detroit's Doc's day of Jewish
programming:

I. p.m.:
When I was Fourteen: A Survivor
Remembers
directors: Marlene
Booth and Jameson C. Goldner;
origination: San Francisco, Calif.
Gloria Hollander Lyon was 14
when her family was rounded up
and sent to seven concentration
camps before being liberated. In
1977, she heard the first denials of
the Holocaust and determined to
tell the true story.



In Vienna They Put You In Jail:
The Max Birnbach Story
director: Cheryl Blaylock; origina-
tion: New York, N.Y.
One moment a clerk in his
father's store, the next, imprisoned
by the Nazis, one survivor's dramat-
ic story.



3:30 p.m.:
A Is for Auschwitz: A Weekend with
My Grandparents — director: Zach
Smilovitz; origination: Franklin,
Mich.
From their lives in Czechoslovakia
to the atrocities committed against
them during the Holocaust, Rita
and Izidor Smilovitz share their
miraculous tale of endurance.
Another Road Home
director:
Danae Elon; origination: New York,
N.Y.
The daughter of Amos Mon, one
of Israel's leading intellectuals,
searches for a Palestinian man who
worked for her family.



6 p.m.
Lullaby
director: Adi Arbel; orig-
ination: Israel.
Eleven Israeli and Palestinians
unite as mothers during an intimate
conversation about pregnancy,
motherhood and bereavement.
One Shot
director: Nurit Kedar;
origination: Israel.
The poetry and home videos of
on-duty combat soldiers in the
intifada relate their experiences.





8 p.m.
Postcard from Auschwitz — direc-
tor: Eric Bednarski; origination:
Canada/Poland.
The story of an imprisoned officer
in the Polish resistance, based on his
own diary.
Seeds
directors: Marjan Safinia
and Joseph Boyle; origination: Los
Angeles, Calif.
For three weeks every summer,
teenagers from war-torn countries
gather together to build a future at
the Seeds of Peace International
Camp in Maine — among them
Israelis and Palestinians.



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