Snitow-Kaufman Productions

02/07/2025

David Ehrlich's piercing and essential writing on the failures of the film industry to acknowledge the reality of Gaza.

Movies have no relevance if they turn away from reality, which is what the distribution struggles of "No Other Land" and Nadav Lapid's "Yes" suggest.

10/06/2025

Post Atlantic broadcast premiere this week!

https://email.linkingarts.com/t/r-e-thssid-njthkwkh-r/

21/04/2025

Trump, Mussolini, the destruction of the NEH to build a "National Garden of American Heroes"

The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in values—from inquiry to reverence.

21/03/2025

Attempts to censor films about Israel-Palestine are nothing new - but they can be stopped.

Attempts to censor films about Israel are nothing new — but they can be stopped, writes S.F. Jewish Film Fest founder Deborah Kaufman.

12/03/2025

Indie film producer James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Crouching Tiger, etc. etc.) shares an urgent message about the attacks on Columbia University.

[As news broke last Friday of the Trump administration’s plan to revoke $400 million dollars of research funding to Columbia University, filmmaker and Columbia professor James Schamus posted the fo…

29/01/2025

So excited our new film POST ATLANTIC about artist Dewey Crumpler will premiere Feb 13 & 17 in L.A. at the Pan African Film Festival. More info here:

07/01/2025

Shattering, inspiring, unforgettable - the Oscar short-listed film from Palestine, "From Ground Zero." Playing now at theaters. We highly recommend seeing it if you can!

“From Ground Zero” is a rare work for which superlatives are not only inadequate but useless.

18/10/2024

These Gen-Z'ers give us hope! Thank you Vivian Kleiman for producing this great short video!

OUT THE VOTE Out the Vote is a video content series spotlighting young q***r people who value voting as a tool for q***r liberation and preservation.

07/10/2024

We have just finished our short (30 minutes) film about the work of visionary painter Dewey Crumpler. We hope you can get a chance to see it when we have a sneak preview on a program of shorts at the IndieShorts Film Festival on Saturday, October 19 at 6:15. Tickets are still available at https://sfshorts2024.eventive.org/films/66e338da9ef772007b26e9f3
Here’s the trailer:
https://youtu.be/rGesyMaAgyU

SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING. What is a political artist? In POST-ATLANTIC, artist Dewey Crumpler struggles with these issues and reveals the evolution of his thinking in beautiful, often abstract paintings that explore slavery, Black liberation, globalization, and pop culture. A crucial figure in the Bl...

01/10/2024

Resistance is Difficult...and Joyful! Our new short documentary POST ATLANTIC to have a 'sneak preview' soon!

28/05/2024

This is a truly great and timely commencement speech from Ken Burns:

Ken Burns, H’24 delivered the keynote address to the 2024 undergraduate class during the 73rd Commencement Exercises.Brandeis Commencement: https://www.brand...

05/04/2024

Today's lead story in Variety - we're proud to have signed:

Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and more Jewish creatives have signed an open letter in support of Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech.