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“Shalom Italia” Post-Film Discussion with Film Producer Tamar Tal Anati
Thursday, June 11, 2020 @ 3:00 pm EDT
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with South Hills Jewish Pittsburgh, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Shalom Italia” and engage in a post-film discussion with the film’s producer, Tamar Tal Anati. CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur will open the discussion.
Educators attending this program are eligible to receive Pennsylvania Act 48 continuing education credits.
A special thank you to Dale and Lynn Lazar for sponsoring this discussion.
Seventy years later, three Jewish-Italian brothers meet to search in a Tuscan forest for the shelter where they and their parents hid during World War II.
Tamar Tal Anati
Tamar Tal Anati is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 20 international awards. She is based in Florence, Italy working on various documentary film projects. Her documentary Life in Stills won the Award of the Israeli Film Academy — Israel’s highest film award — for Best Documentary in 2012 and was named Best Film at the Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival in Tel Aviv. She was also named Best New Director at the Dok Leipzig international film festival in 2011. The film has been screened in more than 100 festivals around the world and internationally broadcasted.
Her documentary TV series on Israeli documentary channel yesdocu, named PILOTS, was the most watched series on the channel in 2017. Her short animated documentary THE RED HOUSE won Best Short documentary in the Master of Arts Film Festival in Bulgaria in 2018.
Her latest feature film, Shalom Italia, was screened at DocAviv Film Festival, IDFA, AFI docs, Festival Dei Popoli and was nominated for Israeli Academy award. It was broadcasted on PBS/POV, ARTE and yes docu.
Tamar graduated from the photography & film department at Camera Obscura School of Arts in Tel Aviv in 2005. She is working as a film consultant for Israeli film funds, and as a juror in film festivals. In 2018 she was a mentor in “Work in progress” program of students films in Festival dei Popli, Firenze.