Our 8th Annual International Jewish Film Festival in Los Angeles is scheduled for Thursday, October 26 through Sunday, November 5, 2006. The Festival will open with a Gala event of the premiere screening of Wrestling With The Angels: The History of Jewish Los Angeles . The 2-hour documentary will bring to life the dramatic and inspiring pioneer spirit of LA's Jewish community and its impact on Southern California.

In addition to the Gala event, daily screenings, excluding Shabbat, will be held at venues in Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley and Pasadena. New feature films and documentaries will be presented and sponsored by the new 24/7 Jewish Life TV (JLTV) and Southern California's popular Jewish newsmagazine, The Los Angeles Jewish News.

To submit films, please fill out the Film Festival form or call Bobby Klubeck at 818-786-4000.

Film Festival dates:
Thursday, October 26 through Sunday, November 5, 2006.

The International Jewish Film Festival

The annual International Jewish Film Festival in Hollywood provides a showcase for the most distinguished films on Jewish themes from around the world.

The festival attracts some of the world’s most respected figures in the entertainment industry, including directors Arthur Hiller and Jeremy Kagan, producers Arthur Cohn and Branko Lustig, and actors Theodore Bikel and Maximilian Schell, along with more than 100 university film students and young filmmakers. This interaction stimulates future productions with Jewish substance.

The International Jewish Film Festival feels it is important that this event be held in Hollywood, exploring film as an accessible medium to observe Jewish cultural similarities and differences, as individuals and as part of a global community.

Ultimately, film is one of the most important ways of celebrating and preserving culture. It enables us to recognize the larger concerns that connect us all. Building on positive images created in recent years by “Jewish Hollywood,” we can insure that billions of people around the world are presented with these positive images for decades to come and Jewish youth will be motivated by seeing their people portrayed in a positive and productive light.

Past Honorees


1999 Gregory Peck - Gentleman’s Agreement	2000 Gene Wilder - The Frisco Kid	2001 Exodus

2002 Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth	2003 The Pianist	2004 Arthur Cohn - The Garden of the Finzi Contini