My company, Good Egg Productions produces award-winning character-driven social issue documentaries about conflict resolution, human rights and the power we have as individuals to make a difference in the world. Our films are sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization.
Our first film, the Emmy-Award winning "The Children of Chabannes," which I made with Dean Wetherell, is the story of how the people in the French village of Chabannes chose action over indifference and saved over 400 Jewish refugee children during WWII. "The Children of Chabannes" won 10 film festival awards, aired on HBO and PBS, had a limited theatrical release and is now distributed by Docurama. "The Children of Chabannes" has been praised as "One of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made--splendid, informative and emotionally involving." (Los Angeles Times)
My second film, "My So-Called Enemy," is about six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who came to the U.S in 2002 to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace, and how their transformative experience in the program, of knowing their enemies as human beings, meets with the realities of their lives at home over the next seven years. Since premiering at Silverdocs in 2010, "My So-Called Enemy" has garnered a CINE Golden Eagle and five awards on the film festival circuit. I was honored as "Someone to Watch" at the 2011 Cleveland International Film Festival. "My So-Called Enemy" has been cited as "A provocative, balanced film that offers unexpected hope for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." (Washington City Paper) and "An insightful, moving, important film. Extraordinary." (The Huffington Post)
These days I am focused on doing outreach for the movie, so that it can be used as a tool for education and dialogue--to build bridges of understanding in local communities and to empower girls/youth/women to be agents of social change.. Each day I am receiving e-mails from academic and religious institutions, after-school programs/foreign exchange programs. communities and ngos who want to screen the movie. For the past two years, I've been traveling around the country with "My So-Called Enemy." And, the travel continues. Our next steps: to develop a more sophisticated website for the film and to develop a Screening/Teaching Guide for the film.
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