Our guests & laureats:
-
Mr. Paul Mazursky
- Tarantino`s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS:
was awarded by Special David Camera`09
- Our 6th WJFF`08 was dedicated to late Master Gustaw Holoubek (85)
- Our Warsaw Jewish Film Festival did support financially CUNIO CENTER for PEACE named of Ahmed Khatib in Jenin, Palestine 2008
- Wajda`s KATYŃ:
Festival`07 openning - Oscar`08 Nomination
- Israeli BEAUFORT:
Festival`07 selection - Oscar`08 Nomination
- West Bank Story:
Oscar`07 & David Camera`06
- Janusz Kaminski & David Camera 06 for MUNICH
- Grace Guggenheim
Jury Chairwomen 06
- Peace negotiations at WJFF 06:Israel & Palestine
- Agnes Varda & David Camera 05, Paris 06
- Amos Gitai, 2005
- Laios Koltai & John Daly, Jury 05
- Lina & Slava Chaplin 05
- Daniela Weber from Berlinale 05
- Education 05 for college students from Warsaw
- Irvin Kershner, Jury 04
- Openning Ceremony 03
- Janusz Zaorski, M.Frackowiak 03
- Prof. Shewach Weiss & T. Friedman
- Gen. Sławomir Petelicki 03
- S.p.Prof.Henryk Kluba, Jury Chairman 03
& the Honorary David Camera Award`10
The history of the Festival idea
In 1998 my documentary Jews of Warsaw was awarded by the Judah Magnes Museum at the Festival of Jewish Videos in Berkley, USA.As I was presented the award I was wondering why there is no such festival in Poland and particularly in Warsaw. In the course of next years I realized my different projects and at the same time I stayed in touch with the friends and organizers of different Jewish film festivals that I had met in Berkeley. In April 2003 my other documentary „Hanukkah-a Double Time” received a special mention at the Festival in Lublin „Europe`s Point of Divergence / Convergence.
The 4 International Day`s of Documentary Cinema”. In April 2003 I was co-organizer of the Multiculture Festival GALICIA in south-east Poland as well. This work, the award and my stay at the Festival in Lublin was an impulse for me to start the preparation of the 1 edition of the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. In May 2003 the first announcement about the Festival appeared on the Internet. Since then I began receiving entries from Polish and foreign film makers and declarations from foreign guests... The first edition of our Festival met with interest all around the world and we received the invitation to participate in the International Conference of Jewish Film Festivals in Boston, USA.
