New Jewish Filmmaking Project
The New Jewish Filmmaking Project (NJFP), a corps of young adult storytellers, presents Half Remembered Stories, an online multi-media exhibition exploring Jewish heritage from the digital generation’s point of view. SFJFF teamed up with SF-based documentary company Citizen Film and 11 emerging filmmakers, who explored “half-remembered stories” from their family’s past. The result is 50 short films, several of which will premiere on the big screen at the 30th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and 11 online, multi-media stories at www.njfp.org The exhibition will also be featured at designated interactive kiosks in theatre lobbies throughout the Festival.
The New Jewish Filmmaking Project, produced by Citizen Film, is a year-round program of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Since 2002, 50 young adult filmmakers, ages 15-25 have worked with NJFP to create sophisticated, authentically personal short films. Those films have been viewed by some 300,000 people to date. "Half Remembered Stories," which rolls out at the 30th SFJFF this summer, is the first NJFP production to combine today's online multimedia technology with traditional storytelling forms.
A Zombie Day of Atonement… A great grandmother’s infidelities… Time-travel with a medieval Moroccan sage… Follow these young adult storytellers as they attempt to fill the voids in their own family stories, using a combination of original motion pictures, illustrations, photos, graphic designs, audio and text to spark conversation about what it means to come of age on the border between Jewish identity and mainstream American life.
