Dan Katzir
Telephone: 323-939-3261
Email: show
Dan's acclaimed films have won 22 international awards and a nomination for the Israeli Academy Award. Out for Love... Be Back Shortly became an instant classic expressing the voice of his generation, and becoming the most important film about the Rabin era in Israel. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story is his most recent film, and is playing in numerous cities worldwide. Katzir graduated from Tel Aviv University and holds a MFA from the American Film Institute (AFI) in Hollywood. Dan recently finished his first fiction novel, and is also working on his first fiction feature in the US.
FILM: Out For Love...Be Back Shortly
- Sunday 2:30 PM–3:45 PM Presidential Suite 1
Dan Katzir's autobiographical film expresses the outcry of his generation, as it struggles to find love and privacy amidst the reality of daily terror and hate. Katzir, a former officer and paratrooper, intimately reveals his love story with Iris, a charming girl about to begin her army service. Nominated for an Israeli Academy Award, this film is also an important historic document with rare and shocking footage from the era of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.
FILM: Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
- Sunday 4:25 PM–6:15 PM Presidential Suite 2
Currently in theaters, this popular and critically lauded documentary film explores the funny, larger-than-life world of Yiddish Theatre today. Zypora Spaisman, a Holocaust survivor who conquers all hearts in her passion for art, life and Yiddish, has kept the oldest running Yiddish Theatre in America alive for decades. Shot in real time in one of the coldest winters in New York, Zypora's theater has one week to raise funding to keep their show going. Many miracles occur during this week. But will they be enough to save this critically acclaimed Yiddish show? (90 minutes)
http://www.yiddishtheater.net
