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SOUTHAMPTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL JULY 24, 2018

My Dear Children July 24 7:30 pm
(2017) U.S.A. 70 minutes
Guest Speaker LeeAnne Dance My Dear Children follows one womans quest to unravel a family mystery. Its a journey that reveals a heartbreaking and little known humanitarian tragedy. One hundred years ago, Jews in what today is Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus suffered through what scholars now call the holocaust of its day. Pogroms that swept the region from 1917-1921 killed some 250,000 Jews, perhaps many more.
My Dear Children is the first in-depth, scholarly film about anti-Jewish massacres in Eastern Europe following WWI. It is told through the rare memoir of a survivor, Feiga Shamis.
My Dear Children brings this history to light, helps Jews everywhere understand their connection to this history, and honors the countless victims. Feigas story is a testament to the consequences of unchecked anti-Semitism at a time of increasing anti-Semitism in the U.S. and elsewhere.
LeeAnn Dance, is the Co-Producer/Director and Writer of My Dear Children. She is an award winning television producer and gher co-producer/director Cliff Hackel in CNNs investigative and documentary unit in Washington, DC, where Dance developed a reputation for thoroughness, tenacity, and creativity. Since leaving CNN, she has worked as a freelance video producer and journalist and taught broadcast journalism at George Mason University. My Dear Children is the first independent documentary for Dance and Hackel. roundbreaking investigative reporter. She began working with her co-producer/director Cliff Hackel in CNNs investigative and documentary unit in Washington, DC, where Dance developed a reputation for thoroughness, tenacity, and creativity. Since leaving CNN, she has worked as a freelance video producer and journalist and taught broadcast journalism at George Mason University. My Dear Children is the first independent documentary for Dance and Hackel.
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