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Events
Interested in expanding your horizons beyond film? Then check out these events
planned during the 2010 Columbus Jewish Film Festival. To download a printable copy, click here.
Opening Night Dinner Reception and Films - Sunday, Nov. 7,
at the
Canzani Center, 60 Cleveland Ave., on the campus of the Columbus College of Art & Design
Kicking off the 2010 Film Festival at 4 p.m. will be the Israeli film, A Matter of Size, a story about four Israeli friends who learn
to love their sizeable-selves through the sport of sumo wrestling. The film will be followed by the Opening Night Dinner
Reception at 5:45 p.m. At 7 p.m., the film, Eli and Ben, about an Israeli boy wrestlin with real-life ethical dilemmas and his love
for his father, will round out the evening.
Eight Over Eighty - Tuesday, Nov. 9,
at the JCC of Greater Columbus, 1125 College Ave.
Join us as we honor eight octogenarians in a special "Eight Over Eighty" celebration and dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. The event will be followed by
the presentation at 7 p.m.of Ahead of Time, the story of World War II news correspondent and photojournalist, Dr. Ruth Gruber, whose career
spanned decades and included escorting Holocaust refugees to America and covering the Nuremberg trials.
"Doc Sunday" - Sunday, Nov. 14,
at the
Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., in OSU's South Campus District
Please join the Columbus Jewish Film Festival for an extraordinary day of documentary films on Sunday, Nov. 14,
and enjoy complimentary bagels all day. This year's program brings three very different types of documentaries that
are provocative and entertaining. Join us at 11 a.m., as we enter into a complicated exploration of race with with Avery, a young
African American runner adopted by a white, Jewish, lesbian couple, in Off & Running. At 1:15 p.m., explore the connection
between Jewish Americans and baseball in Jews & Baseball: An American Love Story. Then, at 3:15 p.m., learn about the world's largest
poetry slam and how four Chicago area high school poetry teams prepare to compete in Louder than a Bomb. At 5 p.m., co-director,
producer and Columbus native Greg Jacobs will present a discussion about the film. The co-founder of Siskel Jacobs Productions, Greg served as VP/Chief
Creative Officer at Towers Productions, where he oversaw the content of more than two hundred documentaries on five different networks,
including award-winning shows and series for A&E, History, Discovery, The Weather Channel, and CNN. A graduate of Yale University, Greg
has a master's degree in history from The Ohio State University, and is the author of Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development,
and the Columbus Public Schools. Greg grew up in Berwick and attended Columbus Public Schools and graduated from Columbus Academy.
Following his presentation, several Columbus Public high school students will read their own poetry.
The Popular Graphic Novel as an Art Form - Monday,
Nov. 15,
at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St., Columbus
The evening will begin at 6 p.m., with an exhibit tour of "The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis." The exhibition features
some 200 individual, black and white drawings illustrating the text of the biblical stories which is reproduced word for word.
Each drawing contains six to eight comic panels illustrating the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and more. Using
his signature style, Crumb's version of the Book of Genesis adds a new twist to an old story. The tour will be followed at 7 p.m. by the
presentation of Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist, and his impact on the dynamic genre of American comic books. The
film will be followed by a Question and Answer session with director Andrew Cooke at 8:30 p.m., with a dessert reception following
at 9 p.m.
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