This screening is the World Premiere for Ester Street and filmmaker, Lisa Seidenberg will be present to introduce her film and lead discussion after the screening.
Lisa Seidenberg is the recipient of several grants & commissions, & film festival awards; - most recently the
2009 Artist Fellowship Award in Film/Video from the
Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
Her films have screened internationally, as well as at the Soros Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the American Humanist Association and the Tully Center for Free Speech.
Ester Street takes its name from a street in Kazimierz, the old Jewish Section of Krakow, Poland. The documentary explores the so-called revival ofJewish Life in Poland through encounters at the annual Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. The documentary is meant to explore the idea or remembrances--what and how should history, both personal and public be remembered? What is appropriate? And whom does it benefit" Does history depend on memory that may not be accurate? These are the questions that are raised, if not totally answered.