“Fighting Antisemitism: Student-Produced Documentaries”

APRIL 22, 2024, UPDATE: JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival announces that FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM: STUDENT-PRODUCED DOCUMENTARIES has been selected for the festival and will be shown in-person on June 2, 2024, at the Wayfarer, 1850 2nd Street, Highland Park, Illinois at 1 p.m.

Announcing March 2024: Feature-length documentary of 10 student-produced documentaries is available for educational purposes. 

Given the alarming rise of antisemitism around the globe since October 7, this documentary has become very timely.

The range of the 10 documentaries of these non-Jewish high school students is quite varied — all choices of the students — from interviewing a young Muslim male in Malmo, Sweden working against antisemitism to featuring a Jewish gay organization working to promote tolerance.

The titles of the individual documentaries and their student producers are:

“Luke Berryman and the Ninth Candle” — McKenna Hopkins, Pamela De La Concepcion

“Keshet” — Mac Klinger

“Catherine Bernstein” – – Kenyen Vignaude, Jorge Mazariegos, Justin Denton

“Siavosh Derakhti” — AJ Foster, Mia Galindo

“Dov Forman” — Noah Cheney, Jaxson Krzyzanowski

“Gen Z Jews” — Camila Monroy, Sam Dankel

“Fighting Online Antisemitism” — Tim Addison

“B’nai Brith” — Carlos Cabrera

“Magen Chicago” — Jason Phillips

“Evelyn and Rosa” — Jordan Weynschenk

Co-directors/executive producers Phyllis Zimbler Miller in Los Angeles and Brian Erlich in Elgin, Illinois worked closely together to assemble the student-produced documentaries into an overall film.