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Birmingham
5/19
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Ann Arbor
5/16
Jewish Community Center
Of Metropolitan Detroit
Mark Davidoff, President
Mark A. Lit, Executive Director
David Stone, Associate Executive Director
Leslee Magidson, Assistant Executive Director
Heidi Budaj, Arts, Culture & Education Director
Shari Lebo, Film Festival Director
Arts, Culture & Education Chair
Carol Weintraub Fogel
USA, 2010, 84 minutes, English
Oakland U.
5/11
Co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL), JCC's Janice Charach Gallery, Workmen's
Circle/Arbeter Ring
Howl is a riveting look at one memorable episode
in the curious, complex life of poet Allen Ginsberg.
Starring Academy Award nominee James Franco,
the film focuses on a trial involving Ginsberg's
highly controversial work, Howl.
The year is 1957, and Ginsberg has been charged
with obscenity for writings the San Francisco
prosecutor describes as "filthy, vulgar, obscene and
disgusting." Perhaps - but what about free speech?
And is it only "obscene and disgusting" because of
Ginsberg's homosexuality?
Also starring John Hamm (Mad Men), Howl is, like
the poem itself: an artistic whirlwind. Partially
animated, it allows the audience into the private
world of the political activist, poet and leading
figure of the Beat Generation.
2011 Winner, Central Ohio Film Critics Association,
Best Actor
2010 Winner, Sundance Film Festival, Freedom of
Expression Award
2010 Nominee, Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury
Prize (Dramatic)
WARNING: This film contains mature material,
strong language and sexual content.
Festival Chair
Eric Lumberg
Chair Emeritus
Elizabeth Pernick
Berman Captain
Miriam Pergament
Birmingham Captain
Deanna Tachna
Brochure Distribution
Joel Marwil
Development
Sara Manson
Elizabeth Pernick
Focus On Films
Mike Beltzman
Hospitality
Cheryl Kirsch
Sue Lutz
Past Chairs
Elizabeth Pernick
Nancy Glass Kanat
Susan Marwil
Martin W. Hollander
Mindy (Soble) Greenberg
Mark Chessler
Steering Committee
Leslie Bash
Mike Beltzman
Norm Bornstein
Barbara Cantor
Jerry Cohen
Rena Cohen
Marcia Fishman
Esther Frank
Barbara Halpern
Terry Hollander
Sandy Hyman
Ina Katz
Cheryl Kirsch
Sheldon Leemon
Eric Lumberg
Sue Lutz
Sara Manson
Joel Marwil
Noemi Mirkin
Shiro Moiree
Miriam Pergament
Elizabeth Pernick
Iris Rosen
Madeline Rosenfield
Barbara Rosenthal
Karen Rouff
Natalie Scheyer
Barbara Shapiro
Deanna Tachna
Sanford Wexler
Patron Event
Sandy Hyman
Ina Katz
Elizabeth Pernick
Barbara Rosenthal
Madeline Rosenfield
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival in Ann Arbor
Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor
Leslie Bash, Executive Director
Mimi Weisberg, Jewish Cultural, Arts & Education
Director
Sponsoring Organizations
Shiro Moiree
Karen Schneider Jewish Film Festival of Flint
Judy Leven Biesman, Co-Chair
Lynne Hurand, Co-Chair
Volunteers
Iris Rosen
Webmaster
Sheldon Leemon
Southwestern Michigan Jewish Film Festival,
Kalamazoo
Naomi Morse, Chair
Oakland University Jewish Film Festival Preview
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival at Wayne
State University