Sharon Rennert
Sharon Rennert is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television editor with a BS in Broadcasting & Film from Boston University, and an MFA in Cinema-Television from the USC. Sharon has been editing and producing documentary series and television specials for over fifteen years and is currently working on “The Bachelor,” while producing her documentary “In Our Hands: A Personal Story of the Bielski Partisans.”
Reel Jews: Filmmakers on the Cutting Edge
Gabriela Bohm,
Ethan Isenberg,
Pazit Varda Lichtman,
Salvador Litvak,
Sharon Rennert,
Suzannah Warlick,
Pamela Weisberger
Arts and Performance,
Global History and Culture
What motivates Jewish filmmakers to write, produce and direct documentaries and fictional films? How do they deal with the illusion of authenticity in filmmaking? How to they manipulate---or avoid manipulating--their audiences? Why are some drawn to document history, while others to fictional subjects? Do they exploit their own life experience for material? Listen, learn and ask your own questions of six of the filmmakers who are presenting their works at LimmudLA.
With Suzannah Warlick, Gabriela Bohm, Sharon Rennert, Ethan Isenberg, Sal Litvak and Pazit Lichtman, all of whom are showing films at LimmudLA, moderated by Pamela Weisberger
1200 Defiant Jews: The Bielski Partisans
Arts and Performance,
Global History and Culture,
Teen Approved
The Bielski Partisans created a thriving shtetl hidden deep within the forests of Western Belarus, resisted the Nazis, and emerged 1200 strong at the end of the Holocaust. Their story is the inspiration for the film "Defiance" starring Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, the group’s leader. Sharon Rennert, the granddaughter of Tuvia Bielski, will discuss her family history and screen excerpts from her work-in-progress documentary, "In Our Hands: A Personal Portrait of the Bielski Brothers." The excerpts include exclusive family movies, photos, and oral histories, and provide a unique and personal glimpse into the real characters behind the film "Defiance."
FILM: Defiance
Arts and Performance,
Global History and Culture
Based on an extraordinary true story, Defiance is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell star as the Bielski brothers who turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential -- a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. Note: this film runs through the next session.
