SJFF 2023 | Director Steven Pressman, THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO (Mar. 21, 2023)

28th Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2023 - Cinemanna
Film Screening: THE LEVYS OF MONTICELLO
Guest: Director Steven Pressman
ABOUT THE GUEST: Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Steven Pressman worked for many years as a newspaper and magazine journalist in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. His first documentary film, 50 CHILDREN: THE RESCUE MISSION OF MR. AND MRS. KRAUS, premiered on HBO in 2013 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming and has screened around the world and on international broadcast television. He is also the author of “50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany,” published by Harper Collins in 2014.
ABOUT THE FILM: The little-known story of a Jewish naval officer who bought Thomas Jefferson’s beloved Monticello home, restored it from ruin, and turned it into an iconic landmark and national treasure despite antisemitic backlash.
"History Happy Hour" cohosted by Pamela Lavitt, Director of Arts+Ideas and Festivals and Lisa Kranseler, Executive Director of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society
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