Click here to listen to the interview. Lexi Levan has been the Executive Director of the Jewish Film Institute, presenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, since 2011, but before that she, herself, was a filmmaker. When we spoke via Zoom on July 7.2024, the first thing I asked her was how that experience… Read More »
ON THE MAP — Dani Menkin Interview
It was the year, according to filmmaker Dani Menkin, when everything felt right. It was 1977 and the Maccabi basketball team was making history for the young country. Many years later, Menkin would make a documentary about the “miracle on hardwood” that played such a big part of his childhood. When I spoke with him… Read More »