Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ AFI - "Angry Harvest" (w/Agnieszka Holland):
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Description of Pictures: WJFF VISIONARY AWARD: Sponsored by the Dweck Family
ANGRY HARVEST
Dir. Agnieszka Holland
This remarkable Academy Award-nominated film tells a compelling story of love and desire during World War II. Middle-aged, lonely farmer Leon (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Avalon) rescues Rosa, a young upper-class Jewish refugee, as she is fleeing the Nazis. While he nurses her back to health, their relationship gradually grows more intimate, but disintegrates into a cat-and-mouse power struggle as Leon’s mixed motives for hiding Rosa emerge.
The WJFF’s Annual Visionary Award recognizes creativity and insight in presenting the full diversity of the Jewish experience through the moving image. The 2017 honoree is Agnieszka Holland, who will join us for a special extended Q&A and Award ceremony. The award will be presented alongside a screening of her Oscar nominated film Angry Harvest.
Co-presented by The Kosciuszko Foundation
Followed by a special extended Q&A and Award ceremony with Agnieszka Holland.
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film director and scriptwriter. She began her career working with Krzysztof Zanussi as an assistant director with Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her debut feature Provincial Actors (1978), was heralded as a leader of the “cinema of moral disquiet” movement, and won the International Critics Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 1981, after Marshall Law was instituted in Poland, Holland emigrated to France.
Among her impressive and prolific catalog of films made in the west, highlights include Angry Harvest (1985), Europa Europa (1990), and In Darkness (2011)—all of which were nominated for Academy Awards.
Holland is actively involved in TV production, having directed seminal episodes of major US TV series including The Wire, Treme, The Killing, and House of Cards. Her latest film, Spoor, premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize.
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HOLL1_170527_042.JPG: Ilya Tovbis, Aviva Kempner, and ???
HOLL1_170527_045.JPG: Aviva Kempner, Ilya Tovbis, and Agnieszka Holland
HOLL1_170527_048.JPG: Agnieszka Holland and Aviva Kempner
HOLL1_170527_050.JPG: Agnieszka Holland and Aviva Kempner
HOLL1_170527_051.JPG: Agnieszka Holland and Aviva Kempner
HOLL1_170527_055.JPG: David Ensor chatting with Agnieszka Holland
HOLL1_170527_088.JPG: Ilya Tovbis
HOLL1_170527_208.JPG: Agnieszka Holland
HOLL2_170527_378.JPG: David Ensor's family
HOLL2_170527_383.JPG: David Ensor's family with Agnieszka Holland
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2017_MD_Womens_Balcony_170517: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ AFI -- "Women's Balcony" opening night (121 photos from 2017)
2017_MD_WJFF_Slides: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) -- Festival Slide Show (38 photos from 2017)
2017_MD_Wagenstein_170518: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ AFI -- "Angel Wagenstein: Art Is A Weapon" (w/Andrea Simon) (43 photos from 2017)
2017_MD_Levinson_170518: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ AFI -- "Liberty Heights" and Visionary Award to Barry Levinson (w/Susan Wloszczyna) (79 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_Heckerling_170525: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ DCJCC -- "Clueless" (w/Amy Heckerling) (148 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_Fannys_Journey_170528: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ DCJCC -- "Fanny's Journey" and Closing Night Reception (75 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_Bar_Crawl_170528: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ On Rye and Bar Deco -- "Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Shorts Program)" (w/Lindsey Sitz) (53 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_77Steps_170521: Washington Jewish Film Festival (2017) @ DCJCC -- "77 Steps" (w/panel) (112 photos from 2017)
Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
Ensor, David appears on:
2018_DC_Baise_180205 DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- Matthew Baise ("Protests in Iran and US Public Diplomacy")
2018_DC_Duffin_180108 DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- Michael Duffin (“How Cities Are Collaborating to Combat Violent Extremism”)
2017_DC_CJournalism_171207 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Conflict Journalism in South East Asia (w/Ted Koppel, Tony Hirashiki, Barrie Dunsmore, and Terry Irving)
2017_DC_Shulman_170710 DC -- USC/PDC -- Holly Cowan Shulman ("How the Voice Has Changed")
2016_DC_Bennett_160502 DC -- USC/PDC -- Amanda Bennett ("Change at the Voice of America")
2016_DC_Ensor_160104 DC -- USC/PDC -- David Ensor ("How Washington Can Win the Information War")
2014_DC_JazzDip_140424 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Jazz Diplomacy: Sending America's Music to the World
Kempner, Aviva appears on:
2019_11_24B4_Moment_Dinner DC -- Moment Magazine's 2019 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Dinner and Post-Event Mingling
2019_11_24B2_Moment_Pgm DC -- Moment Magazine's 2019 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Presentation
2019_11_24B1_Moment_Pre DC -- Moment Magazine's 2019 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Pre-dinner mingling
2019_05_21A1_Ancient_Law JxJ (2019) @ AFI/Silver -- "The Ancient Law" (w/Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals)
2019_05_11F1_Moe_Berg JxJ (2019) @ AFI/Silver -- "The Spy Behind Home Plate" (w/Aviva Kempner, in conversation with Franklin Foer)
2018_DC_Moment_Pre_181111 DC -- Moment Magazine's 2018 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Pre-dinner mingling
2018_DC_Moment_Dinner_181111 DC -- Moment Magazine's 2018 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Dinner and Post-Event Mingling
2018_DC_KatzenXT_180907 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Members Gallery Talk: Emilie Brzezinski, Dalya Luttwak, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, and Mika Brzezinski
2018_DC_Artifacts_180907 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Member's Party w/The Artifacts
2018_DC_James_180614 AFI Docs 2018 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Steve James @ Natl Museum of American History
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.