| Strangers No More | |
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| Directed by | Karen Goodman Kirk Simon |
| Cinematography | Buddy Squires |
| Release date(s) | 2010 |
Strangers No More is a short documentary film about a school in Tel Aviv, Israel where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. The parents of these children are among over 300,000 transnational migrant workers who have arrived in Israel—some with government authorization and others undocumented..[1]
The film follows three students as they struggle to acclimate to life in Israel and slowly unveil their stories of hardship. Strangers No More was shot on location at the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv. It is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of Simon & Goodman Picture Company, whose films have received four Academy Award nominations and three Emmy Awards. It won best Short Documentary at the Academy Awards in 2011.[2]
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Strangers No More premiered on September 24, 2010 at the Laemmle Theatres Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, California. It has also screened in cities worldwide through the Shorts International OSCAR®-Nominated Short Films 2011 program. On January 25, 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Strangers No More as being nominated for the 83rd Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Short Subject category and later won in the February 27, 2011 ceremony.
The film is scheduled on HBO beginning December 5th, 2011.
Strangers No More has also screened at the following venues:
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA)
JCC Greenwich (Greenwich, CT)
Festival Internacional de Cine Judio en Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
UK Jewish Film Festival (London, UK)
Caracas International Jewish Film Festival (Caracas, Venezuela)
Calgary Jewish Film Festival (Calgary, Canada)
Freedom to Create Festival (Cape Town, South Africa)
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (Hong Kong, China)
Jewish Culture Days Munich (Munich, Germany)
Park Avenue Synagogue Mitzvah Day (New York, NY)
Nashville Jewish Film Festival (Nashville, TN)
UN Monterey Bay Chapter International Film Festival (Monterey, CA)
Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (New Brunswick, NJ)
UNHCR Refugee Film Festival (Various Cities, Japan)
Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Festival Internacional de Jovenes Realizadores de Granada (Granada, Spain)
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (Chicago, IL)
Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival (Cupertino, CA)
Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York, NY)
Museum of Contemporary Art Miami (Miami, FL)
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)/Sixth and I Historic Synagogue (Washington, DC)
InD Panda International Short Film Festival (Hong Kong, China)
Kavalan International Short Film Festival (Taiwan)
Kehilat Shalom International Symposium (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Boston Jewish Film Festival (Boston, MA)
Rochester Jewish Film Festival (Rochester, NY)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Panorama at UNESCO (Paris, France)
Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Festival de Cinema Jueu de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Bucharest Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Global Education Conference (Melbourne, Australia)
Mid-Westchester JCC Scarsdale (Scarsdale, NY)
Limmud-Oz: University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
Berkshire International Film Festival (Berkshire, MA)
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) (Washington, DC)
Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Potsdam (Berlin, Germany)
Africa World Documentary Film Festival (St. Louis, MO)
Israel Film Fest (New York, NY) *Winner of the Audience Award at the 2011 Israel Film Fest
Toronto Jewish Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) *Winner of the Best Documentary Short award at the 2011 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA)
360/365 George Eastman House Film Festival (Rochester, NY)
Sacramento International Film Festival (Sacramento, CA) *Winner of the Outstanding International Short award at the 2011 Sacramento International Film Festival
Portland Jewish Film Festival (Portland, OR)
Westchester Jewish Film Festival/Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY)
Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR)
Kolnoar Chevrati Festival (Efrat, Israel)
Festival International du Film de Boulogne-Billancourt (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)
Palm Beach International Film Festival (Boca Raton, FL)
Israel Film Festival in Paris (Isratim) (Paris, France)
IDA DocuDay New York: The Paley Center for Media (New York, NY)
IDA DocuDay Los Angeles: WGA Theater (Beverly Hills, CA)
LimmudLA Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
Underdog Film Festival (Montclair, NJ)
Ray Kurtzman Theater, CAA (Los Angeles, CA)
New York Jewish Film Festival (New York, NY)
Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Tel Aviv, Israel)
The Museum of Modern Art, Celeste Bartos Theatre (New York, NY)
Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Starz Denver Film Festival (Denver, CO)
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