About This Event
Honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust during our community's annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, this year held at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and featuring the Indiana premiere of documentary The Magic Lantern, chronicling the story of local survivor Marijke Brown. Following the film, director Eli Brown will participate in a talkback with the audience.
Brought to our community with support from the Okon Family Fund for Holocaust Education, PBS Michiana - WNIT, and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
About The Magic Lantern: Marijke Brown receives a mysterious letter revealing details about her rescue as an infant by the Dutch Resistance. The letter sparks a 30-year odyssey for her and her son, a filmmaker, as they connect to family lost in the Holocaust -- and each other. The Magic Lantern, directed by Eli Brown, is the first-person point-of-view account tracing the forward chronology of the director’s family journey of recovery and healing. With the director, Eli, as narrator and guide, and aided by the glowing light and slides from a magic lantern projector, this film explores the events that unfold after his mother receives this fateful letter, while interrogating the experience of Jewish identity and the devastating impact of the Holocaust as it trickles down through the generations.
About the Director: Eli Brown is a filmmaker based outside of New York City. He has worked with public media for over 2 decades as a director, editor and producer, creating nonfiction programs that have raised over $50 million for PBS, including "The Brain Fitness Program," "Ken Burns: America's Storyteller," and "Women of World War II: The Untold Stories." He is an active member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and also the online communities The D-Word and Video Consortium.
About This Event
Honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust during our community's annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, this year held at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and featuring the Indiana premiere of documentary The Magic Lantern, chronicling the story of local survivor Marijke Brown. Following the film, director Eli Brown will participate in a talkback with the audience.
Brought to our community with support from the Okon Family Fund for Holocaust Education, PBS Michiana - WNIT, and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
About The Magic Lantern: Marijke Brown receives a mysterious letter revealing details about her rescue as an infant by the Dutch Resistance. The letter sparks a 30-year odyssey for her and her son, a filmmaker, as they connect to family lost in the Holocaust -- and each other. The Magic Lantern, directed by Eli Brown, is the first-person point-of-view account tracing the forward chronology of the director’s family journey of recovery and healing. With the director, Eli, as narrator and guide, and aided by the glowing light and slides from a magic lantern projector, this film explores the events that unfold after his mother receives this fateful letter, while interrogating the experience of Jewish identity and the devastating impact of the Holocaust as it trickles down through the generations.
About the Director: Eli Brown is a filmmaker based outside of New York City. He has worked with public media for over 2 decades as a director, editor and producer, creating nonfiction programs that have raised over $50 million for PBS, including "The Brain Fitness Program," "Ken Burns: America's Storyteller," and "Women of World War II: The Untold Stories." He is an active member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and also the online communities The D-Word and Video Consortium.