When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
A fortnightly podcast all about taking joy in film watching. There'll be: news, reviews of whatever random assortment I've watched recently, a film recommendation, and news of what's coming up in the cinema, all ended with some film facts. Every other podcast I'll have a guest who will bring in three films that they feel passionately about, talk about their film 'speciality' and answer a few fun questions. You may even get some film history & theory thrown in for good measure. My name is Jul ...
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This episode I'm joined by friend and fellow Film Inquiry contributor; Jax. We talk about our problems with Michael Bay, how everyone needs to get over their horror of black and white films, also Jax discusses how her photo sensitive epilepsy gets in the way of a good movie and how she's trying to bring back the good old independent film festival.R…
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On this episode I do my fortnightly grump on Ghostbusters 3 vs. the manosphere, I also talk about some pretty great documentaries, and ponder on the 'class divide' that exists when trying to obtain films.Recommended Film: Her Master's Voice.Other Recommendations: Back To The Future, Bad Neighbours (the scenes with Rogen & Byrne anyway), Captain Ame…
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This episode I talk about all the great films to look forward to (and there's a lot), muse on the white-washing of ethnic characters, and get all introspective about what it means to be a film critic.Recommended Film: The Skin I Live In.Other Recommendations: Drive, Eddie The Eagle, ET, Going Clear, Her, Independence Day, Let The Right One In, Litt…
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