On-Site Film Screening | JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire”
Join JCC Jewish Film Festival Chicago for a film told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) – his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and hand painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure. Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed and co-wrote the American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People which was nominated for a Critics Choice award. His film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards.
Join us immediately following the screening for a talk back with Howard Reich, retired Chicago Tribune writer and son of Holocaust Survivors, and the author of The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel.
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Film Info
- Director: Oren Rudavsky
- 2024, USA
- English
- Documentary
- 90 minutes
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