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ARTIST-IN RESIDENCY AT MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY
KADDISH filmmaker Steve Brand was invited for a two-day Artist-in-Residency visit to Millersville University in Lancaster, PA. (April 21 –22, 2025), where he showed the 4K restoration of KADDISH to a community audience of 300 followed by a lively Q&A, as part of Millersville’s "On Screen/In Person" film series, in partnership with Millersville's Holocaust & Genocide Conference.
Many thanks to the pre-screening panel discussion group: Dr. Jack Fischel, Rabbi Jack Paskoff, Dr. Victoria Khitterer, Dr. Jeff Mufson,  and Educator Julia Fallows; and special thanks to Robin Zaremski, Director of The Arts at Millersville and Dean Ieva Zeke of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
Pre-screening panel Filmmaker, pre-screening panel and Dean Zeke
Steve also met with several classrooms of students to talk about the issues raised by the film.
Communications Class Social Psychology Class Anthropology of Religion Class
The themes of the rise of fascism, dehumanization of those who seem different, intergenerational trauma, fears of a coming apocalypse, transcending victimhood and emerging protest movements are more relevant today than ever.
Many thanks to Professors  Marlene Arnold (Anthropology of Religion), Jane Marie Clipman (Social Psychology), Robert Spicer (Communications) and Madeleine Darmiento (MU Arts Alive) who graciously invited Steve into their classrooms, and to Barry Kornhauser of Millersville's Office of Visual & Performing Arts for organizing the event.
We look forward to doing more of these valuable exchanges in the future.
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Kaddish 2-Disc DVD now available!
New 4K Restoration of the classic 1984 documentary,
featuring Yossi Klein Halevi

Lovingly restored by IndieCollect, Kaddish is at long last available for educational and home use.

Bonus Features Include:

  • A 30 Years Later interview with Yossi Klein Halevi, today a best-selling author (Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor), speaker and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem

  • An interview with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steve Brand

  • New Trailer!

  • Review Excerpts

  • Deleted Scenes

  • Photos

  • Booklet

  • and MORE!!
buy the dvd for educators
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14th St Y-Kaddish

Kaddish screening

Sunday, Jan 28, 2024, 7PM

Theater of the 14th St Y, NYC

in commemoration

of

International Holocaust

Remembrance day

The screening was followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Steve Brand and Shelly Freeman, Chief of Staff at YIVO.
The event was co-sponsored by FEDsocial and the 14th St Y.
Click here for more info!
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Webinar — The Ongoing Relevance of the Film "Kaddish" Forty Years Later

June 6, 2022, 1pm EDT

A conversation between filmmaker Steve Brand and the film’s subject, noted author and speaker Yossi Klein Halevi, sponsored by the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT).

The discussion was moderated by Dr. Yael Danieli, a leading authority on the continuing impact of trauma through generations. Dr. Danieli served as chief humanities advisor to the film.
Watch the Webinar

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We are happy to announce that the new 4K Restoration of this award-winning documentary had its World Premiere at the 2022 New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

The film was screened in-cinema as well as virtually, accompanied by a Q&A with filmmaker Brand, film protagonist Yossi Klein Halevi, and Aviva Weintraub, Director of the New York Jewish Film Festival.
watch ny jewish film festival Q&A