Tag: Holocaust
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‘Where is My home?’ by Cecelia de Jesus was the official winner of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Student voices film competition in 2013. The film tells the story of Vera Gissing and her escape from Czechoslovakia during the start of the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Foundation is home to one of the largest collections of…
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With Holocaust Memorial Day coming up on January 27th, we want to share a couple of films with you over the next couple of weeks which share the stories of Holocaust survivors. In 2014, collage artist Martin O’Neill and animator Andrew Griffin (GRIFF) were paired with Bettine Le Beau, a holocaust survivor, to interpret and…
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The Deptford Animadocs symposium took place on a warm July day in Deptford Cinema, London. A converted shop edging the bustle of Deptford Market, the venue, which is run entirely by volunteers, is plastered with cult film imagery and local information, combining the laser focus of film obsessives with the inclusivity of a community space. The event…
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We are pleased to be sharing the latest news from Fettle Animation about their animated documentary series ‘Children of the Holocaust’ created for broadcast with BBC Learning and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association. The series is based on interviews with World War 2 Holocaust Survivors, and will form a resource on the BBC Learning Zone for 13 and…
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Nyosha is the story of a young Jewish girl who becomes fixated on a pair of shoes as the source of her salvation while her life is ripped apart by the Holocaust. Based on the diary and video recordings of Nomi Kapel, one of the young filmmaker’s grandmother, director Liran Kapel and Yael Dekel have employed both…
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A lovely little short here from Yorkshire company Fettle Animation, uncovering stories from Bradford’s Polish Community. Part of a series of “Fragile Stories” films commissioned by the National Media Museum, Bradford Animation Festival and I-Move, Yorkshire’s Cultural Programme for London 2012. http://fettleanimation.com/2012/07/02/247/
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After fifty years a Holocaust survivor recalls her time as a child in the camps, and afterwards with relatives in Sweden; based on the experiences of Tana Ross. http://archive.org/details/OrlyYadinSylvieBringasSilence Awards: Best Animation, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 1999 Grand Prix, Odense Film Festival, Denmark 1999 Gold Hugo Animated Short, Chicago International Film Festival, USA 1998…
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Find out more about this work-in-progress – based on the experiences of one of the last living Auschwitz Holocaust survivors – at the project blog here (mostly in Dutch but now being updated in English) http://www.blendernation.com/2012/02/08/animated-documentary-mijn-geluk-in-auschwitz/
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