#njff

Fran Brumlik is the Festival Director of The Nashville Jewish Film Festival, (NJFF).  The NJFF is a program of the Gordon Jewish Community Center (GJCC). In 2012 the NJFF will celebrate its 12th year of bringing educational, entertaining and thought-provoking Jewish-themed films to the historic Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.

Do615 will be giving away passes to select screenings, check out our NJFF page for giveaways.

Five Questions for Fran Brumlik 

1. Would you give us a brief history of NJFF?

The NJF is entering its 12th year of presenting important feature films and documentaries that focus on contemporary Jewish life in the US, in Israel, Europe and throughout the world.

The Festival was begun as a program of The Temple (Congregation Ohabi Shalom) and attracts a Broad geographic audience with screenings at the historic Belcourt Theatre in Hillsboro Village the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Bellevue and in 2012 a one night concurrent screening at the Franklin Theatre.

In 2011 the Film Festival became a program of the Gordon Jewish Community Center and is able to utilize the professional accounting and marketing staff that the Center made available. 

For most of its history the NJFF has been fortunate to have the volunteer leadership of four dedicated and committed women, Laurie Eskind, Jackie Roth Karr, Cynthia Moskovitz and Loretta Saff.

Throughout the years the Festival has grown to   present 13 full length screenings as well as short subject films that complement the main attraction.

  2. What films are you most excited about in this year's lineup?

  This year the films that NJFF are presenting are varied and interesting.  I personally am excited about HAVA NAGILA (THE MOVIE), which is a light hearted exploration of the iconic song that is heard at every Jewish event and accompanied gymnast Ally Reizman through her floor exercises.  I think that audiences will really enjoy GEI ONI, an Israeli film by noted film maker Dan Wolman.  It is the cinematic version of a best selling novel by Shulamit Lapid and is a beautiful love story that has as its backdrop the dream and struggle to rebuild the landof Zion in the late 19th century.  We are all excited about the  30 minutes short subject documentary of Nashvillian Adam Hirsch called ‘THE CAKE LADY’  al look at a lively octogenarian whose love for baking eases her transition into assisted living.

3. What filmmaker (past or present) would you like to showcase in the future?

Sometime next year  DAWN  a film based on the novel by Elie Wiesel will be released.  We are hoping that we can add it to our Festival. 

We continue to look for films that are made throughout the world that focus on Jewish life in a post holocaust world.

  4. Are there plans to expands the programming in 2013?  

 Should there be indications of an audience at the Franklin Theatre we would certainly consider it as a possible second site.

5. Where may our users find a list of the events tied in to NJFF?