Audience Award - Best Doc
Miami MIFO Film Festival
Official Selection
Outfest (Los Angeles)
NewFest (New York)
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
DocUtah Int'l Documentary Film Fesival
Flickers Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
Edmonton Int'l Film Festival
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Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride! tells the astonishing true story of Gloria Stein.
During a nasty divorce, Butch, the 67 year-old Jewish macho, homophobic owner of an auto wrecking company hides from the law as a woman, thus beginning a twisting journey of self-discovery and an uplifting later-life story promoting tolerance and acceptance of people regardless of their gender expression.
Featuring risky surgeries, sex work, family dysfunction, activism and falling in love, Gloria's life is one that must be seen to be believed. Fasten your seatbelts. This is most definitely one helluva ride!
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| Documentary | Directed by Robyn Symon | USA | 75 minutes | 2016 |
In the face of threats to her life, Muslim singer/songwriter turned spiritual leader Ani Zonneveld takes a stand for women, justice, and progressive Islam.
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Official Selection
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Cleveland Int'l Film Festival
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Despite controversy and threats, Muslim spiritual leader Ani Zonneveld pushes for takes a progressive practice of Islam and bridging the divide between her faith, Judaism, and Christianity. Enduring threats, excommunication from family, and opposition from many fellow Muslims and Islamic leaders, she insists that the Qur'an is a progressive text and believes in an egalitarian view of Islam.
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| Documentary | Directed by Omar Al Dakheel | USA | 19 minutes | 2016 |
Best Music Documentary
San Francisco Black Film Festival
Official Selection
Oakland Int'l Film Festival
San Francisco Black Film Festival
Baltimore Int'l Black Film Festival
San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Body and Soul is the most recorded song in jazz. The history of this one song reveals the overwhelming
influences, collaborations, and conflicts between African Americans and Jewish Americans in the American music.
Body and Soul: An American Bridge
explores the cross-cultural relationship, revealing a rich vault of musical performances and surprising connections that formed the music of America: Jazz.
With performances by: Louis Armstrong and the New Cotton Club Orchestra, The Benny Goodman Trio, John Coltrane,
Dianne Schurr, Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, and Libby Holman.
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Sheffield Int'l Doc/Fest
A masterful documentary
- Ron B. Meier, Executive Director of the American Society for Yad Vashem
Powerful and moving
-Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation
Destination Unknown, executive produced by the USC Shoah Foundation,
brings us face to face with survivors who endured the death camps, hid in remote farms, and fought as partisans in Polish forests, only to face a new post-war future that they had to square with the horror they had just witnessed. These survivors, in an effort to bring their experiences of the Holocaust to the younger generations, share their memories - many for the first time, some for the last - in a seamless mosaic of first-hand accounts. Full of rare archival footage and never before seen Super 8 family films from after the war,
Destination Unknown presents a seamless mosaic of twelve powerful first-hand accounts of the lives of survivors after the Holocaust .
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Audience Award
Jewish Int'l Film Festival (Australia)
Official Selection
Berlin Int'l Film Festival
Melbourne Int'l Film Festival
Fascinating! An eye-catching, engrossing romp!
- Variety
The connectivity of memory, legacy and family is defined with a playful yet profound dexterity in Trevor Graham's soulful, inspiring documentary.
- Screen-Space
A colourful portrait of holocaust heroism.
- The New Zealand Herald
Monsieur Mayonnaise is a richly layered, road movie starring artists, real life heroes, Nazi villains ... and baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise!
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