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Jewish Story Partners’ Latest Round Of Grantees Pushes Total Films Helped Past 100
Jewish Story Partners has unveiled its latest list of grantees, earmarking $500,000 to be distributed among 21 upcoming feature documentary projects.
“We’re pleased to support a subset of films that center personal experiences at the heart of a painful and intractable conflict — stories that offer nuance and humanity in the face of propaganda and extremism,” JSP co-executive directors Roberta Grossman and Caroline Libresco said. A newly uncovered trove of audio tapes and archive affords an intimate journey into the fantastical mind and groundbreaking work of beloved Jewish neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks – one of the most creative and influential thinkers of our time and the man who helped found the modern neurodiversity movement. When a retired theater director begins creating internet videos featuring deeply intimate conversations with his growing collection of ventriloquist dummies—including several modeled after his Jewish relatives—his daughter attempts to understand his motivations, uncover family history, and repair their fraught relationship— using puppets.
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