[Fredslist] Recommend film screening at LI Latino International Film Festival on 9/28

[leslie j yerman communications]

Dear Gotham members:

*Have friends on Long Island?*

Please let them know that award-winning */The Longing:  The Forgotten 
Jews of South America/* is screening at the Long Island Latino 
International Film Festival on Sunday, September 28^th at 1:00 pm.  
Director Gabriela Bohm will be on hand for a Q&A after the screening.

The film will be shown at the Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY/Stony 
Brook.  To view the trailer and learn more about the screening and 
festival, visit www.liliff.com/index.html.

*About the film...*

The documentary tells the story of a small group of South Americans who 
long to affirm their faith. Their ancestors --- European Jews --- were 
forced to convert during the Spanish Inquisition. Isolated in Catholic 
countries, rejected by local Jewish communities, they battle to become 
Jews regardless of the consequences.

Set in Ecuador, /The Longing /tells the story of their attempt to regain 
their birthright. The group includes three women who travel 36 hours, 
one-way, by bus, from Colombia and a couple from a small Ecuadorian 
town. On the Internet, they have found an American rabbi committed to 
helping "lost Jews" reclaim their identities. He meets them in Ecuador, 
where he has difficulty getting the local Jewish community's support in 
facilitating their conversions.

Ultimately, he convinces several local Jews to participate. Lost no 
more, the new converts' dreams are fulfilled. Yet they face an uncertain 
future.

To learn more about Gabriela and the film, visit www.bohmproductions.com.

Thanks.

leslie j. yerman

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