Page 3 - Mort Skirboll Jewish Film Festival 2021 BROCHURE

Cinema Under the Stars

For pewter sponsors and above, opening night, centerpiece event and closing event will feature drive-in screenings
at the Sarasota High School parking lot. The opening night event will be a catered event from Michael’s on East,
celebrating foods highlighted in the film, Abe. Individual food packages will be distributed upon your arrival.

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ABE A STARRY SKY ABOVE BREAKING BREAD
Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring THE ROMAN GHETTO In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and
chef, but his family —half-Israeli, half- a side of politics are on the menu.
Palestinian— have never had a meal The past interlaces with the present: Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, the first
together without a fight. But when the discovery of a mysterious yellowed Muslim Arab to win Israel’s MasterChef
Abe ditches his traditional summer photograph depicting a little girl will television competition, is on a quest to
camp to spend time with radical street lead Christian and Jewish students to make social change through food. In
chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine search for the truth. They undertake an effort to affect change, she founded
a journey through the memory of
SCREENING food. Abe decides to cook a meal that a painful past that is hard to forget, Haifa, Israel, where pairs of Arab and
the A-sham Arabic Food Festival in
inspires him to unite his family through
such as the memory of the raid on the
Jewish chefs collaborate on local
will bring everyone to the table, but
COMMITTEE he’s about to learn that the kitchen Jewish ghetto of Rome. dishes. A film about hope, synergy,
and mouthwatering fare, Breaking
can’t heal some age-old divides.
Bread illustrates what happens when
people focus on the person, rather
than her religion; on the public, rather
than the politicians.

OPENING CENTERPIECE CLOSING
NIGHT EVENT EVENT

SPONSOR SPONSOR SPONSOR

SHELLY & SY MARSHA CHERYL & STEVE

GOLDBLATT EISENBERG SHAPIRO

benefits
sponsor

PEWTER SPONSORS

Marcy and Michael Klein $10,000 Premier Sponsor • you or your designee • selections for up to 4 households
The opportunity to have one film
Recognition in all event publicity,
Sandi Kligman ($6,470 tax deductible) – ONE AVAILABLE on the JFF webpage, and in the named for you or your designee
Sandra and Ben Krause pre-film commercial, shown • Recognition in Festival Brochure
Barbara Kupferberg • Ability to invite up to 10 house - before each film screening and on JFF webpage
Joan and Bart Levenson holds to Opening Night Event
Lisa and Bill Libman • Ability to invite up to 10 house-
Leslie D. and Mitch Marantz holds to Centerpiece Event $5,000 Silver Sponsor $1,500 Copper Sponsor
Barbara and Philip Meltzer • Ability to invite up to 10 house- ($2,882 tax deductible) ($794 tax deductible)
holds to Closing Night Event

Robert and Andi Munzer • SOLD
Susan and Kenneth Newmark • Access to virtually view all JFF film • Ability to invite up to 6 households • Ability to invite up to 2 households
Bert Rapowitz and Lauri Pollack selections for up to 10 households to Opening Night Event to Opening Night Event
Ronnie Riceberg The opportunity to have the • Ability to invite up to 6 households • Ability to invite up to 2 households
and Dennis Zimmerman Jewish Film Festival named for you to Centerpiece Event to Centerpiece Event
Nadia Ritter or your designee • Ability to invite up to 6 households • Ability to invite up to 2 households
Irene and Marty Ross • Recognition in all event publicity, to Closing Night Event to Closing Night Event

on the JFF webpage, and in the
Lori Ruland pre-film commercial, shown • Access to virtually view all JFF film • Access to virtually view all JFF film
Karen Selwyn before each film screening selections for up to 6 households selections for up to 2 households
Nancy and Barry Shapiro • Recognition in Festival Brochure, • Recognition in Festival Brochure
Cindy and Martin Spector on JFF webpage, and in the pre- and on JFF webpage
Sue and Marty Spector $7,500 Opening Night Sponsor film commercial, shown before
Cheryl and Mel Taub ($4,676 tax deductible) – ONE AVAILABLE each film screening $850 Pewter Sponsor
Bryna and Howard Tevlowitz ($497 tax deductible)
Evans Tilles and Terry Neis $2,500 Bronze Sponsor
Janet Tolbert • Ability to invite up to 8 households ($1,088 tax deductible)
Lee Vickman and Carol Camiener to Opening Night Event • Ability to attend Opening
Hannah and Norm Weinberg • Ability to invite up to 8 households Night Event
to Centerpiece Event

Patti and David Wertheimer • SOLD • Ability to invite up to 4 households • Ability to attend Centerpiece Event
Fremajane Wolfson • Ability to invite up to 8 households to Opening Night Event • Ability to attend Closing
to Closing Night Event

Debbie Yonker Access to virtually view all JFF film • Ability to invite up to 4 households Night Event

to Centerpiece Event
selections for up to 8 households • Ability to invite up to 4 households • Access to virtually view all JFF
• The opportunity to have the to Closing Night Event film selections
Opening Night Event named for • Access to virtually view all JFF film • Recognition on JFF webpage