good morning, and welcome to just saw the trailer for the 38th jewish film festival and we would like to introduce to its executive director, lexie wlo lebon

>> thank you for having us. >> what did we just see? >> this is the trailer for the 38th annual san francisco jewish film festival. we kick off july 19th through august 6th. we'll be in five bay area cities, including oakland, albany, pala alto, marin and of course the castro theater in san francisco so we're really looking forward to seeing everybody there. >> wonderful. and i know every year there's a special opening film and closing film and a lot of stuff in between that we'll get to, but you want to maybe talk a little bit about what those films are and kind of get us started? >> sure. our opening night film on july 19th at the castro is "love gilda" and this is a film about the late, great comedienne gilda radner, who was the first cast member cast for ""saturday

night live,""and it's a wonderful documentary by lisa doppilito and covers gilda's life and her time as a cast member. and has great clips, talks about her relationship with gene wilder, and also when she got cancer. we're going to have lisa, the director there, on opening night and also original not ready for prime time cast member, saturday "saturday night live" cast member lorraine newman joining us. >> and opening night is at the castro theater? >> it is. and i want to talk about the freedom of expression recipient this year. we're giving it to the great documentary film maker liz

garbis, who's made a lot of amazing films. such as recently "what happened miss simone" and previously she made a film called "the farm" which was nominated for an academy award as was "miss simone." she did a film years ago about bobby fisher the chest player and "shouting fire," which dealt with fr expression and eeofdom featured father, martin garbis the fist amendment lawyer. she'll be here with a new film called "the fourth estate,"which is about the first year of the trump administration, especially the first 100 days and it follows the "new york times" reporters and journalists as they're dealing with threats to freedom of expression. giftto the bay area community

at large, and there's so much that happens behind the scenes to make this gift come true. i'm wondering, can you talk a little bit before we see the clip for the freedom of expression award, but what is the freedom of expression award and w do you get to this moment of announcing it? >> you know, we have a list that we kind of go through potential candidates and a lot of it depends on what's going on in the times, of course it depends on people's schedules. we've been wanting liz garbis for a long time. and she's going to have a live on-stage one-hour interview by luminary, bonnie cohn.

she'll be on stage with liz garbis. >> wonderful. >> but wanted to talk also about our closing night film, which is sammy davis, junior, "i've got to be me". this is a film by sam pollard, another great documentary film maker. he was the editor for many of spike lee's films. he's been nominated for an academy award and this is an overview of sammy davis, junior's life. >> wonderful. >> and it's much more complex and complicated than i ever imagined. he was t ciefl heri fghints movemorent w martin luther king, jr. when i was growing up, he was kind of known as having hugged richard nixon. but there's so much more to his life. that's the clip we're going to see. >> should we go to the clip or

would you like to set it up? >> this is is a trailer of the film so we can go right to it. >> let's go. >> i'm colored, jewish and puerto rican. when i move into a neighborhood, i wipe it out. >> sammy davis, junior's life was about confronting obstacles. ♪ mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, come back and dance ♪. >> his gift was his talent. the curse was being black in america. >> it's no fun to walk into a place you're going to play in and be told that we've had 14 bomb threats. >> even if you win, you don't win. g go said these people are in enterttoainer no matter how muc they hate me as a black. >> if i could have lived in the '20s with valentino, i would have had the leopards on a leash walking down the street.

>> you played it for her, you played it for me. >> i'm a black guy but i'm going to imtate a white guy. >> you dirty rat. >> this was really groundbreaking at the time he did it. >> hanging out with sinatra and those guys increased his cool factor. >> he's one of the boys. >> sammy saw himself as somebody breaking new ground for black people but there was definitely the perception that he was a sellout. >> any time you walk down the street and your own people turn you away, all the money, the diamonds, fame and fortune, mean absolutely nothing. .

so how was work? sam: it was thirteen hundred hours. my math class, room 302, was in the trenches. davy roth had it the worst. fractions were coming at him left and right. he just didn't get the damn things. two days ago, i tried to teach him what 1/4 of 1/2 was using different sizes of blocks. yesterday, i tried again by dividing up pizza. both missions failed. rachel: oh no. sam: but today...i was ready. sam: i created a combat math game where the only way to beat the enemy is to out-fraction them. davy conquered every last denominator. my game was so successful, the principal is deploying it to math squadrons all over the school. rachel: wow! sam: anyhoo, oh, uhh...the td l: m, w

mytoda try boss deate anyhoo, oh, uhh...the td l: rachel: i know. good morning and welcome back to "mosaic." i'm rabbi eric weiss and honored to be your host this morning. we're in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the 38th jewish film festival throughout the bay area and we would like to welcome back lexie lebon and jay. welcome back, jay and lexie. >> thank you. >> i know the film festival the film festival brings in a lot of different components of the community at large under different categories. i'm wondering if you can talk about what all of that engagement is this year. >> yes. wereally ve i an amazingly richland escape in san francisco in terms of the arts community.

we've always partnered wit different arts organizations and cultural community groups but this yearwe're taking ito a new -- it to a new level and the film clip you just saw, sammy davis junior "i've got to be me" is a partnership we're doing with the african museum. they're partnering with us to present the closing night film and linda harris, the executive director of the museum will be doing an on- stage interview with sam pollard after the screening, so that should be really greet. >> who is sam pollard? >> sam pollard is the director of the film. so that i think will be ililluminating. she'll bring a new perspective to the conversation. and then we are doing another partnership with the silent film festival this year. we have an amazing new film, a 1924 film from austria, called "the city without jews."

it was discovered in a paris flea market in 2015 and it was restored by the austrian film academy. we will be the first ogg shun to present it outside of austria and we're doing that with the silent film festival. the film will play at the castro theater in a one-time only screening with a live musical score. so we're really exitd about that partnership. then finally we're partnering with the film noir foundation to do an amazing screening of a new hard boiled noir film called "budapest noir". the director will be us and eddie do the on- stage interview and he's been referred to as the czar of noir so i think that will be great along with the audience that

usually comes to screenings in period garb, so everybody should be raiding their closets and getting out that you are costumes. i think we're going to see a clip from "budapest noir". >> should we set it up now? >> i'm not sure what -- it's the trailer, so great. this is the trailer for "budapest noir" and it's shot beautifully. the film maker has the noir aesthetic down. for anybody that was at the festival last year, the cinema -- which was both the audience award winner and the san francisco film critics award winner last year. so here's the clip. >> let's take a look. >> budapest.

[ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> wonderful. lexie and jay, in a moment we're going to see another film clip but i wonder if you could talk about in general how you even choose films year to year. >> well, we go to several festi the berlin film festival,

sundance fingerprint film -- sundance film festival and try becca. -- tribeca and we have a call for entries where film makers apply and we have prescreeners and of course, the programming committee that goes through all the entries. >> it's really a diverse way of including artistic expression on many different levels. >> yeah. >> so we have one more film clip to see before we take a break. what is that clip? >> well, we have two center piece films. we have a center piece documentary and a center piece narrative film. the center piece documentary is "the waldheim waltz,"about curt waldheim when he ran for president for austria and his nazi past came back to haunt him and he lied his way to winning. this was the st docry film at the berlin film festival and the director will be here. and then we have our center piece narrative film which was

the audience award winner at the tribeca festival, it's called "to dust" and stars matthew broderick and gaza roder ick. and gaza and the director shaun snyder is going to be here with us. "to dust" is a kind of strange romance, buddy film, road movie, unlikely pair of orthodox jewish man who just lost his wife and not understanding where the body goes. and he ol science professor played by matthew broderick. >> you're a scientist? >> i'm a science teacher. i he >> i'm not sure i'm going to be able to be of service to you, rabbi. >> i'm not rabbi. >> i have a faculty meeting

soon. >> i'm having some bad ideas in my head. i just -- my wife. >> last night was her -- >> maybe you need a podiatrist. look, i'm sorry for your troubles, rabbi, truly -- >> i'm not a rabbi. >> but i have these papers to grade and i wish you luck, really, friend.

good morning and welcome back to "mosaic." i'm rabbi eric weiss and we're in the middle of a wonderful winversation about the 38th

ilsh fjestjust in a very concrete way what are the dates of the film festival, where are the films going to be shown, how do people get tickets and all of that? >> go ahead. >> well, the film festival is coming up. it starts july 19th through august 6th. the first 10 days are at the castro theater in san francisco. and then starting this saturday after the festival opens we're in palo alto, and then we good to the east bay and we're at the albany, landmark theater in albany for a week. and then on the last weekend, which is the first weekend of august, we're going to be at the marin christopher b. smith ra fell film center and people can get tickets by going to our

website at sfjff.org or they can talk to an actual human by calling our box office. and i believe that number is -- but you can double-check online and order tickets now because they're selling like hot cakes. >> wonderful. we're going to go to another clip pretty quickly so why don't we set up this particular clip we're about to see. >> yeah. so this clip is from a film called "satan and adam,"which is one of my favorite titles in the whole festival this year. it's part of a side bar we're doing called black-ish and jew- ish and the sammy davis film is a part of that. another film called "crossroads" about a jewish coach of a predominantly african american lacrosse team and then "satan and adam."

it's 23 year in the making. the director will be with us and it's our local spotlight film. scott is a film maker from oakland and one of the subjects of the film adam gusseau is with him. two blues musicians who meet on the streets of harlem when they bus together and they become a really hot item on the blues circuit and it's a wonderful film and i think we're going to see the clip now. >> let's take a look >> in the '80s was depressed economically. s a ia blues. a sin for me to ay the i'm serving the devil. >> i was trying to figure out who this guy was. >> i'm mr. satan, hello, everybody. >> somebody took me aside and said you know who ear playing

with, you're playing with sterling mcgee. he was on ray charles' tang region label -- tangerine label. he. backed up -- he backed up james brown at the apollo theater. >> if a casting director had been hired to create a sitcom about two opposites in a blues band, this is who they would come up with. >> this drew us. >> i'm rooted to the ground blown away by what i'm hearing and seeing. >> i don't do it for money, i don't do it for pay. this is my mission. >> it's a classic romance, those two guys having a great time. we're an so what?

maria, so how's work? maria: it was 4th period biology. our students ho viresst weren't getting so ms. bell and i had them role play a zombie virus outbreak. by the time they had all learned the lesson, all the living...were dead. hey, how's your job going? carlos: oh, that big sales meeting i planned?

next year, i might get to go. kid: cool!

welcome back to "mosaic." i'm rabbi eric weiss about to end a wonderful conversation with lexie lebon, the executive director of the jewish film institute which produces the jewish film festival and jay rosen blatt, its program director. welcome back. >> thank you. >> what was that clip? >> this is a fantastic documentary called "nedicines." we saw a couple of activists in the clip. these are women who have taken on the issue of cyber harassment and it's ry serioue cause ere are lare really governing cyber harassment in the way that actual sexual harassment is governed, so these are women trying to change that. anita sarkisian who is one of

the women in the clip, is local so she will be there with cynthia loewen to answer questions about the film in a panel discussion sponsored by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. and then the other character or subject that you saw in the film is carey goldberg, a jewish attorney who lives in new york, who's really at the forefront of this legal field. so this is an amazing side bar that's our response to the harvey weinstein revelations of the past year. it features women film makers and subjects that are taking back power around this issue. and we're really excited that 54% of our line-up this year is represented by women directors. we have back with us this year roberta grossman, who is a festival favorite. she produced and directed -- which was one of our opening night films, as well as seeing

allred at this year's past winter fest. she's made a fabulous film. it's -- the world premiere of her new film and it's called "who will write our history." it's one of the most important, untold stories of the holocaust and she'll be here with us as well. >> wonderful. we have to end it in really just a moment and i know you want to make one comment around -- why don't we have one comment as a teaser for folks and then we have to put a comma in the conversation and invite people to go to the film festival. >> we th film called "science ir" h wothe ce award a one called "the sentence" which won the directing award at sundance and the one called "end of me" about >>e into have

good-bye and invite people to go to the film festival. please enjoy the san francisco jewish film 'fess festival this summer.

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