Sundance Brings Jewish-Themed Films

1/30/2006
David Pepose
Sundance, Utah's independent film festival, will prove to be a great outlet for Jews in the movie-making business, as many of this year's films will have Jewish themes or Jewish filmmakers.

Sundance, Utah's independent film festival, will prove to be a great outlet for Jews in the movie-making business, as many of this year's films will have Jewish themes or Jewish filmmakers. Two Jewish-oriented documentaries were accepted in the competitive documentary category: "Wide Awake," by Alan Berliner, which deals with the director's struggles with insomnia. In the "Spectrum" section of the festival lies "Jewboy," a film dealing with Orthodoxy and identity, "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man," which is about the Jewish folk singer, and "Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner," which is an homage to the playwright and "Munich" scripter. KZ, a film entered in the "World Cinema: Documentary" category, is about the concentration camps that used to stand in the German city of Mauthausen.

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