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Monday, July 13, 6:30pm, Dryden Theatre IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST Director: Daniel Ankar, US, 2004, 92 min., English Directed by Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy winning director Daniel Anker, and an audience favorite at more than 50 film festivals around the world, Imaginary Witness explores the ways film shapes our perception of the Holocaust. Using rarely seen footage, first-hand accounts by directors, actors, writers, and producers, and clips from numerous films including The Great Dictator (1940), The Pawnbroker (1965), The Producers (1968), Sophie's Choice (1982), and Schindler's List (1993), the film examines Hollywood's complex responses to the horrors of the Holocaust. Beginning with American ambivalence and denial during the height of Nazism, the film explores the silence of hte postwar years, the impact of television, and the current climate. Narrated by Gene Hackman, the documentary features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, Rod Steiger, Annette Insdorf, Neal Grabler, and Sharon Rivo. Generoudly underwritten by Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP. Back to film festival schedule »  
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