Exclusive: Emmy winners Julianna Margulies and Sarah Silverman are lending their star power to support the Oscar-contending short documentary Jack and Sam, the extraordinary story of two Holocaust survivors reunited nearly 80 years after they escaped death in a Nazi labor camp.
Margulies, Silverman and Amy Zvi (Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles) have signed on as executive producers of the film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jordan Matthew Horowitz. Jack and Sam premiered in June at the Provincetown International Film Festival, going on to win the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary Short at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington state and the Audience Award at the Calgary International Film Festival.
Sam Ron (L) and Jack Waksal
Nonagenarians Jack Waksal and Sam Ron first met as teenagers in 1943 when they were both sent to the Pionki work camp in Poland. They became friends as, day in and day out,...
Margulies, Silverman and Amy Zvi (Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles) have signed on as executive producers of the film directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jordan Matthew Horowitz. Jack and Sam premiered in June at the Provincetown International Film Festival, going on to win the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary Short at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington state and the Audience Award at the Calgary International Film Festival.
Sam Ron (L) and Jack Waksal
Nonagenarians Jack Waksal and Sam Ron first met as teenagers in 1943 when they were both sent to the Pionki work camp in Poland. They became friends as, day in and day out,...
- 10/10/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Coming your way in limited release on September 23rd, A Bird of the Air is a quirky, indie number that looks as charming as anything to come along in a while. Centered around a loner who finds a parrot, and embarks on a mission to return the bird to its rightful owner, it's a kind of quest film that spins out of control.
If the trailer is any real indication, my money is on this one coming together into a very solid effort, and one that I think many will find themselves watching again and again.
Below check out some more info, the trailer, and a few images, and find out if this one will make appearance near you.
A sassy parrot and a free-spirited librarian upend the well-ordered life of a solitary man.
Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner, working the graveyard shift for the Courtesy Patrol. When a...
If the trailer is any real indication, my money is on this one coming together into a very solid effort, and one that I think many will find themselves watching again and again.
Below check out some more info, the trailer, and a few images, and find out if this one will make appearance near you.
A sassy parrot and a free-spirited librarian upend the well-ordered life of a solitary man.
Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner, working the graveyard shift for the Courtesy Patrol. When a...
- 8/21/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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