Events & initiatives
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event Spotlight
NOVEMBER 2024
NYC Screening of We Will Dance Again
at Columbia University's Kraft Center
In November, we were honored once again to screen We Will Dance Again together with AEPi at Columbia University's Kraft Center.
The panel following the film included director Yariv Mozer; producer Susan Zirinsky, President of See It Now Studios at Paramount+; producer Emilio Schenker, CEO of Sipur Studios; Columbia University student and AEPi brother Noah Lederman, and Ben Sadeh a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre, whose participation was especially meaningful, and whose heroism on that day is depicted in the film. The film continues streaming on Paramount+
SEPTEMBER 2024
Advance Screening of We Will Dance Again
at the University of Maryland
In September The backStorygroup was gratified to have the opportunity to host, together with Terps For Israel, a screening of We Will Dance Again, a film by Israeli director Yariv Mozer. This profoundly important documentary portrays the events that occurred at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 and tells the personal stories of individuals who experienced that horrific day.
We Will Dance Again is streaming on Paramount +, and was named by Variety as one of the top films to stream in September. We were especially fortunate that the filmmaker, Yariv Mozer, joined us in-person for this Advance Screening.
AUGUST 2023
Since we launched the Back Room Project in 2020, we've been thrilled with the wonderful films and music resulting from this collaboration between the students at the University of Georgia's Grady College and the Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance. Now we're delighted to share a taste of 3 films whose makers and composers participated in the 2021-22 Back Room.
Click on the links below to a preview of the results of three of these collaborations: Little Drummer Boy by filmmaker Sheldyn (Sam) Moore with music by Tom Zylberstein; Stay by filmmaker Elias Saliba, music by Zohar Elnatan; and Breach by filmmaker Nalani Dowling and music by Hadassa Daniels.​
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Thank you to all of our generous, wonderful, creative and inspiring collaborators during this time: from our friends and filmmakers in Israel to our supporters and fellow creatives in the U.S. We couldn't do this without you.