People UK Jewish Film Festival 2007

UK JFF NEWS

We regret to announce the death in July 2007 of Chris Schwarz who was Chairman of the UKJFF in 2002 and 2003. Chris was the Founder and Director of the Galicia Museum of Lost Jewish Heritage in Kracow and a unique person.

THE STAFF

Festival Director: Judy Ironside
Artistic Director: Gali Gold
Festival Producer: Michael Etherton
Festival Administrator: Laura Hirst
PA to Festival Director: Tessa Watson
Programme Consultant: Orly Yadin and Simon McCallum
Short Film Fund Co-ordinator: Asher Tlalim
Holocaust Education Co-ordinator: Chana Moshenska
Accountant: Stephen Davidson of Brett Adams
Public Relations: The PR Office - Katie Phillips & Anna McCreadie
Brochure Design: 2D Design
Trailer Designers:
Shay Hamias & Alon Ziv
Website Design: Sliced Ltd
Programme notes writers: Nancy Fishman, Gali Gold, Judy Ironside, Simon McCallum 

THE BOARD

Chairman: David H. Kustow
Tim Angel OBE
Linda Berkowitz
Clare Diskin
Uri Fruchtmann
Michael Grabiner
Luke Holland
Stella Joory
Simon Kanter

Ann Rosen

Errol Rudnick
David Shear
Jason Solomons
Andrew Somper
Nicole Taylor
Lindsay Wittenberg

President:

Alan Howard

The Patrons

Honorary Life Patron: Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE

Helen Bamber OBE
Sir Lawrence Collins LL.D., F.B.A
Sir Ronald Cohen and
Lady Sharon Harel-Cohen
Simon Fanshawe
Romaine Hart OBE
Sir Terry Heiser GCB
Stephen Hermer
Samir Joory
Lia van Leer
Maureen Lipman CBE
Paul Morrison
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
Selwyn Remington
Ivor Richards
Eric Senat
Chaim Topol

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO


Romaine Hart, Roger Austin and Tony Bloom of Mainline Pictures
The Screen on the Hill:
Managers: Rachel Buchanan, Philip Grey
Assistant Managers: Robert Ballington, Charlotte Wales
Projection: Lou Brain, Carl Higgins, Umpha Koroma, Dave Mills
Chief Engineer: Colin Payne
Staff: Claire Berliner, Comfort Cole, Xander Hart, Josh Grey-Jung, Oliver Meek, Tom
Madey, Mary Nighy, Steph Patten, Dave Ryder, Isis Thompson, Edwin Tubb, Max Wilson
Mark Adams, David Cox and Tejinder Jouhal of the ICA
Lilach Adler, United King
Morinade Akinbobola, Film London
Simon Anderson, Cultural Relations Officer,
Canada House
Tim Angel, Angel Costumiers
Ori Bader, Cinephil
Roy Ballentine, The Curved Angel
Clare Binns, Jason Wood, Damian Spandley & Tim Brown of City Screen
Hilary Blume of the Charities Advisory Trust
Juliet Burch, National Centre for Jewish Film, Brandeis University
Martin Caraux, Films Distribution
Jane Clements, The Council of Christians and Jews
Sir Ronald Cohen and Lady Sharon Harel-Cohen
Efrat Cohen Magen, Israeli Films
Tom Crew and Dave Young, Future Brand
Sam Curtis, Sinclair House
Geraldine D’Amico, Jewish Book Week
Steven Davidson, Brett Adams
Nick Dautlich, Sliced Creative
Ignacio Durán, Minister of Cultural Affairs & Jimena Gorráez-Belmar, Mexican Embassy
Jo Evans, The Kobler Trust
Nancy Fishman, Programme Director, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Uri Fruchtmann
Veronika Gais, Bavaria Film International
Anna Godas, Dogwoof Pictures
Hedva Goldschmidt, Go2Films
Robin Grbich, Trinity Films Entertainment
Joshua Green, Emerging Pictures
Shay Hamias, Th1ng
Sandra Hebron and Sarah Lutton of the Times BFI London Film Festival
Eva Hoffman

Zvi Heifetz, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Paul Hoy, Sony Pictures
Tami Israeli and Rebecca Engel, The Embassy of Israel, London
Joel Israelssohn, The Kobler Trust
Peter Kaye, Local Coordinator, Manchester - UK Jewish Film Festival
Rebecca Knapp
Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil
Harvey Kundhi, NFT Logistics

Talya Lador-Fresher, Deputy Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Rachel Lasserson, The Jewish Quarterly
Suzanne Lewis, Ben Uri Gallery
Lia van Leer, Founder and Director of The Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Jerusalem International Film Festival
Paul Lofting, Jenny Wills & Rupert Stevens, Odeon Cinemas
Dina Matar, SOAS
Paul Mazursky
Simon McCallum, BFI

Elli Olmer
Olswang
Haya Nastovici
Ziv Naveh, Gesher Foundation
Phillip O’Sullivan, NICIE
Yael Perlov
David Pope and Becky Bazzard, New Producers Alliance
Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah
Parvathi Raman, SOAS
Sylvie Richards, Local Coordinator, Brighton -UK Jewish Film Festival
Alan Rubenstein & Grant Levy, The JC
Charles Rubenstein, The Rio cinema
Juliet Simmons and Claire Berliner, JCC
Prof Annabelle Sreberny, SOAS
Andrew Stone, The Kobler Trust
Stephen Tandy, Trigenis
Melanie Tebb, Hollywood Classics
David Teigeler, Sheffield International Documentary Festival
David Thomas, Marriott Hotel Regents Park
Prof Paul Webley, SOAS
David Nicholas Wilkinson, Guerilla Films
Abigail Wood, SOAS
Orly Yadin, Footage Farm
Alon Ziv, Th1ng
We would like to thank our festival guest, Jose Luis Goldfarb of the Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival for the original image for our printed materials. Jose is Director of General
Culture of Hebraica Sao Paulo, Brazil; Director of the 'Festival de Cinema Judaico' of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.


SHORT FILM FUND
With thanks to our Panel of Judges for 2007:
Lady Sharon Harel-Cohen, Romaine Hart,
David Kustow and Yoav Segal.




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