By Jeremy Simon
With its most recent festival, which ran from March 24 to 30 this year, the Austin Jewish Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary. Now that its one-decade milestone has been reached, Ajff founder David Goldblatt and his co-chair Cindy Pinto took a look back to refresh their memories and ours about just how far the festival has come.
Slackerwood: Describe the origins of the Ajff. When was the festival initially created and why?
David Goldblatt: Since I came to Austin in 1988, I had many discussions with people in the Jewish community about how we needed to have a Jewish film festival here. But it never happened. I got involved with the arts committee of my Synagogue, Agudas Achim, and [they] encouraged me to go to Jackson, Mississippi, to find out about starting a film festival.
In 2002, I went to Jackson to the Jewish Cinema South program of the Goldring Woldenberg...
With its most recent festival, which ran from March 24 to 30 this year, the Austin Jewish Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary. Now that its one-decade milestone has been reached, Ajff founder David Goldblatt and his co-chair Cindy Pinto took a look back to refresh their memories and ours about just how far the festival has come.
Slackerwood: Describe the origins of the Ajff. When was the festival initially created and why?
David Goldblatt: Since I came to Austin in 1988, I had many discussions with people in the Jewish community about how we needed to have a Jewish film festival here. But it never happened. I got involved with the arts committee of my Synagogue, Agudas Achim, and [they] encouraged me to go to Jackson, Mississippi, to find out about starting a film festival.
In 2002, I went to Jackson to the Jewish Cinema South program of the Goldring Woldenberg...
- 4/9/2012
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