The Boston Jewish Film Festival named Amy Geller, long active in the Boston film community with curatorial and production experience, as its new Artistic Director. Geller's background includes producing a variety of feature, documentary and short films, curating film festivals and serving as Associate Director of The Boston Jewish Film Festival. Geller's chief responsibilities will be selecting films and programming fo...

2009 Boston Jewish Film Festival: Family to Fables; Homeland to HomesickOpening November 4 and continuing through November 15, the 21st annual Boston Jewish Film Festival presents a wide range of films exploring themes of "home." These films survey families, faith, doctrinal sects, nationalities, immigration, and exile as facets of our powerful stories of "home.""Home is a word that acts like a Rorschach test," said Sara L. Rubin, artistic director. "Some of our images are intensely unique and p...

Film Festivals Pro might be interested in a project we’re working on at WGBH.  The WGBH Lab is hosting a ‘Youth Voices Open Call’, a program that will give several young media-makers between the ages of 13 and 18 a $2000 grant to produce video shorts about climate change. The final video shorts will be featured online and may be broadcast on WGBH, Teachers’ Domain, PBS World, and other PBS stations nationwide. For more information, please review the attached press release (also avail...