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In The News #2
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ABOUT PVJFF
The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival presents 2 weeks of award-winning films from around the world, plus speakers and special events. Through collaborations with educational and cultural organizations as well as businesses, the Festival provides audiences a multifaceted exploration of contemporary Jewish culture, secular and religious life, history and politics.
Films are screened across the Pioneer Valley – this year in Amherst, Greenfield, Longmeadow, Northampton, Shelburne Falls, Springfield, and West Springfield - in venues ranging from the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield to the Garden Cinemas in Greenfield with many stops in between.
The PVJFF is a collaborative effort of over 30 volunteers and professional staff from organizations across the Pioneer Valley. The Festival offers, among other things, a temporary common ground where community members interested in experiencing Jewish culture via film can learn, be inspired, and enjoy being together. Cinematic stories of joy and celebration, love and loss, tolerance and activism, ethics and history - all demonstrate time and again how important film is as a medium to help us to understand who we are, where we are from, what life is like for others around the globe, and how all of this relates to our contemporary lives and choices.
We hope you’ll join us and be entertained, inspired and enlightened!
To make a tax deductible donation to the Festival, you can click on the button to the left to donate online or call the JCC with your credit card: 413-739-4715. Alternatively, you may send a check made out to PVJFF to: Springfield JCC 1160 Dickinson St., Springfield, MA 01108
PVJFF Steering Committee
Janet Kaplan Bucciarelli, Festival Director
Carlin Preisick Trietsch, JCC, Programming & Fiscal
Fran Eisenberg, JCC Programming & Administration
Dyan Wiley, Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Advisor
Amy Dryansky, Development
Adrienne Potter Yoe, Summer Intern
Founders
Howard Polonsky
Dee DeGeiso
Michael Paysnick
Film Screening Committee
Adrienne Potter Yoe
Alicia Walter
Arthur Haselkorn
Belle Rita Novak
Bob Mahler
Carlin Preisick Trietsch
Carolyn Mernoff
Corrie Trattner
Daniel Yalowitz
Debora Sperling
Ellen Kaplan
Ellen Rowles
Eric and Debbie Rubenstein
Fran Eisenberg
Gail Shapiro
Galina Vromen
Herb & Bea Kaplan
Jacqueline Strauss
Jane Clark
Jonas Kaplan-Bucciarelli
Judi Wisch
Larry Goldbaum
Lisa Enzer
Mark Bucciarelli
Mark Roblee
Paula & Peter Zimmer
Pearl-Anne Margalit
Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein
Sarah Billian
Sophie Kaplan-Bucciarelli
Susan Shepherd
Tova Hyman