For the Living Screening and Q&A with Film Producer Marc Bennett
This program is part of our Author and Film Festival Series showcasing renowned speakers and authors.
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303 N Federal Hwy
303 North Federal Highway Dania Beach, FL 33004About this event
- Event lasts 3 hours
In January 1945, after 2 years as a prisoner in a death camp, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinksi embarked on a perilous 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau through an active war zone to Krakow, Poland. A child’s desperate search for any surviving family members. A journey from Darkness to Light.
Decades later, 250 cyclists from 12 different countries traveled to Auschwitz and re-traced 84-year-old Marcel’s liberation path as a collective act of empathy called "Ride for the Living," which was created by JCC Krakow.
Marcel’s dehumanizing Holocaust experience and the empathy demonstrated during "Ride for the Living" provide a stunning parallel for Humankind’s equally perilous journey between the two extremes of our nature: Dehumanization to Empathy. Darkness to Light.
Igniting the urgent conversation: When will we stop building monuments for the dead and get busy re-humanizing the living? When will we finally say NEVER AGAIN and truly mean it!
Marc Bennett has spent his adult life creating powerful imagery and stories in both print and film. As an artist and photographer, his work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the United States and is a part of many public and private collections, including Yad Vashem, Holocaust Museum LA, the Museum of Tolerance, the California Afro-American Museum, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation.
As a director, he has helmed multiple feature films, documentaries, and music videos. His credits include the feature film Should’ve Been Romeo, the documentaries Life Matters and A Journey of Hope and Survival, and the award-winning Hot Flash Havoc, narrated by Goldie Hawn.
Marc recently directed the animated short film The Tattooed Torah, based on the renowned children’s book about The Holocaust. The film has been an oMicial selection of over 50 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards, including Best Animated Short and Best Adaptation.
Marc just completed co-directing the feature documentary For the Living with Tim Roper and producer Lisa EMress to spark an urgent conversation about how our innate human empathy might be the key to disrupting an uncontrollable wave of dehumanization worldwide. The same dehumanization which invariably led to a centuries-long pattern of the worst crime imaginable: Genocide
FOR THE LIVING - website with trailer, synopsis, and director’s statement
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The event is free, but registration is required.