A new documentary about community, history, the power of the arts, and the promise of diversity. The hour-long film tells the story of Dominican and Jewish teenagers in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, who together with the legendary theater director Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican Republic’s rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler. Award-winning filmmakers Peter Miller and Renée Silverman interweave this little-known - and racially complex - Holocaust story with an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the making of the theater production. In a neighborhood where Jews and Latinos live side by side but rarely interact, the theater project brings its young actors on an extraordinary journey of discovery of what unites them - both in the past and in the present. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 8.5/10 | |
Released: | April 7, 2013 | |
Runtime: | 53 min | |
Genres: | Documentary Music History | |
Crew: | Peter Miller Renée Silverman | |
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