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Enjoy a private screening in your home with a question & answer session with filmmaker Peter Miller of Willow Pond Films!  Invite your friends for this special event to see your choice of one of Miller's critically acclaimed documentaries.  Miller is a grantee of the Foundation for Jewish Culture's Lynn and Jules Kroll Documentary Film Fund.

You will also receive a DVD of each of the following 5 documentaries:

• Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story - signed by New York Yankees' player Kevin Youkilis : This movie explores the connection between Jewish Americans and baseball, our nation’s most iconic institution. More than a film about sports, it is a story of immigration, assimilation, bigotry, heroism, the passing on of traditions, and the shattering of stereotypes.
• A Class Apart: The first major film to bring to life the heroic post-World War II struggles of Mexican Americans against the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them, A Class Apart is built around the landmark 1951 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the way to the Supreme Court - and win.
• Sacco And Vanzetti: This film brings to life the story of two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Their ordeal came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf.  
• The Internationale: Through the story of a song, the film explores the importance of ideals, the fate of the left, and the power of music as a force for change.  
• and the newly-released Kroll Fund supported documentary Sosua: Make a Better World, which tells the story of Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City's Washington Heights, who together with the legendary theater director, Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler’s Germany. 

Finally, you will receive a signed poster for Peter’s latest film, Aka Doc Pomus, in theaters this fall.  This films tells the joyous, heartbreaking, and extraordinay journey of Doc Pomus. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as a one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “Viva Las Vegas,” and dozens of other hits. For most of his life Doc was confined to crutches and a wheelchair, but he lived more during his sixty-five years than others could experience in several lifetimes.

Read more about Willow Pond Films here: http://www.willowpondfilms.com/

Item Special Note

The private screening is limited to the NYC metro area.