Purim to Passover and Beyond Project: Screen a film on risk-taking and social change for your friends and community!
Sandi DuBowski, founder of Films That Change the World, and director of Trembling Before G-d, organized 85 DVD screening parties in 16 countries for Trembling on the Road’s 5th Anniversary. The results were so powerful and moving he was inspired to approach fellow filmmakers, expand the issues tackled, and triple the impact.
Films That Change the World, together with Keshet and Just Vision, is working to organize 250 house, organization, school, and synagogue parties and discussions around the world from Purim to Passover (and beyond), from March through the summer - and we’d love you to host one!
We invite you to:
· Host face-to-face screening parties of any or all of these films from Purim to Passover and beyond, through the summer, either in your home or at your synagogue, school, youth group or community organization.
· Share your stories, join our forums and live web events, and write for guest blog.
We will feature three films – Trembling Before G-d/ Trembling On the Road, Hineini: Coming Out In A Jewish High School and Encounter Point – that feature risk-takers who aim to transform the Jewish people and the world, engaging GLBT and straight people, Jews and people of all faiths.
About the films:
Trembling on the Road is a featurette - a dramatic document of dialogues, protests, reactions, screenings, and events from the worldwide tour of Trembling Before G-d.
Hineini: Coming Out In A Jewish High School, produced by Keshet, is a moving film about a teenager who fights to start her Jewish high school's first Gay-Straight Alliance.
Encounter Point, produced by Just Vision, is about Israeli and Palestinian non-violent civic peace-builders.
This campaign will launch on the holiday of Purim, March 9th, 2009, run through Passover, April 9th, and extend until the end of May. Purim and Passover are powerful ritual frames for talking about risk-taking and liberation. In the Purim story, Queen Esther, who had kept her Judaism a secret from her husband, King Ahasuerus, takes action and comes out to him to save her people when they are faced with extermination. Passover is a holiday of liberation from oppression when we leave the "narrow place" and join together to fight for justice and freedom.
We ask you: Where would you like to make a change in your life? Where can you be a risk-taker? In your family? In your community? In the world? Where can you fight for justice and freedom?
- Get advice on how to organize your screening, obtain the film, and have a thoughtful post-film discussion.
- Contact us with questions