April 16, 2005

Jewish culture on screen

Wayne State University professor David Magidson is quoted extensively in a piece about the seventh annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival. Sixteen films will be offered locally this year, while almost a total of 40 are scheduled for screenings in the festival\'s five locations (Commerce Township, Birmingham, Windsor, Flint and Ann Arbor). \"We do everything we can to get as many films as we can,\" Magidson said. \"Many times, film festivals are either like the Ann Arbor Film Festival, all entries of new work, or they\'re ... all already existing films. Ours is a kind of a hybrid of those - partly because the subject matter is specialized enough that if we just limited ourselves to new films made during a certain time, we probably wouldn\'t have enough, but also, we don\'t look at ourselves as not having new work, because ... it\'s critical to encourage young filmmakers," Magidson said.

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