Christmas Day screening: "Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen" + Q&A

Christmas Day Screening!
Exclusive Q&A with the filmmaker Daniel Raim

Go behind the scenes with FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN, the untold story of the making of Norman Jewison’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”

If you love the Fiddler on the Roof sing-along, this is a MUST SEE!

Join a discussion with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim, (the director of the critically acclaimed "Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story," LAJFF 2017.)

"FIDDLER’S JOURNEY" goes behind the scenes of the beloved classic and captures the untold story of producer-director Norman Jewison's quest to give the iconic musical "Fiddler on the Roof" new life on the big screen. It reveals how he struggled to recreate the lost world of Eastern European Jewry while telling a universal story about the importance of family, the fragility of tradition, and the systematic oppression and expulsion of a minority population.

Complete with extensive personal interviews with Jewison himself, Chaim Topol, lyricist Sheldon Harnick and others. Norman Jewison’s "Fiddler on the Roof," the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made.”

Brought to you by the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival and the Fine Arts Theatre. For more info, visit LAJFilmFest.org.