Highlights
from the
10th Anniversary
Palm Beach
Jewish
Film Festival
Dec. 11-19, 1999 |
- 9-day Festival branched out to two theatre venues
--Carefree Theatre, West Palm Beach
-- Regal Shadowood Theatre, Boca Raton
- Record-breaking attendance of 9,000 ( 20% increase)
- Introduction of Palm Beach Jewish Film Fest website:
www.palmbeachjewishfilm.org
- Recognition and award from National Endowment for the Arts.
- 32 films from 10 countries
- 7 U.S.A Premieres; 5 Southern Premieres; 9 Florida
premieres; 7 Palm Beach Premieres; 4 Retrospectives
- 1999 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary, Short
Subjects The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years (USA)
- 2000 Academy Award Entry, Best Foreign Film Solomon &
Gaenor (Wales)
- 1987 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary, Short
Subjects Young at Heart (USA)
- 1999 Cannes Entry, Best Foreign Feature Kadosh (Israel)
which goes on to a 12-week run at PBJFF theatre-The Regal Shadowood
- 16 guest filmmakers and speakers from the US and abroad
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