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Virtual Shabbat  Lounge during Sundance 2022

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Jan 21

Virtual Shabbat Lounge during Sundance 2022

You are invited to join us for our annual Shabbat Lounge during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival - going VIRTUAL again this year!

By Shabbat Lounge

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Date and time

Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 5:13 PM – Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 1:00 PM MST

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Online

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About this event

RSVP FOR TWO VIRTUAL SHABBAT LOUNGE EVENTS - SAT NIGHT & SUNDAY! All events are complimentary and open to everyone, with an RSVP! Zoom links will be available on the Eventbrite Virtual Lobby via a link on your confirmation email & emailed out.

JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT FOR UPDATES.

🟡 SATURDAY NIGHT, JAN. 22nd, starting @

6:30PM PT / 7:30PM MT / 8:30PM CT / 9:30PM ET

POST-SHABBAT, HAVDALLAH CONCERT WITH SPECIAL SUNDANCE FILMMAKER GUESTS , VIA ZOOM.

SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE:

🔸 Craig Emanuel (Paul Hastings LLP)

🔸 Adam Neuhaus (ESPN Films/30for30/ESPN+)

🔸 Lior Geller (ROADS)

🔸 Sasha Levinson (SYLVIE OF THE SUNSHINE STATE), our Slamdance Partner Filmmaker.

🔸 Lydia Dean Pilcher, Jury Member for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. (A CALL TO SPY, RADIUM GIRLS)

🔸 Sara Bernstein (Imagine Documentaries; DOWNFALL: THE CASE AGAINST BOEING + LUCY AND DESI)

🟡 SUNDAY, JAN. 23rd, starting @

11AM PT / 12PM MT / 1PM CT / 2PM ET / 7PM UK / 8PM EUR / 9PM ISR

LAUNCH OF OUR SUNDANCE RISHON SERIES about the POWER OF FILM TO PRESERVE MEMORY.

🔸 Our special guest will be Director Bianca Stigter (THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING). Thanks to SuperLTD.

Learn more about the film's Sundance Premiere on January 24th, on the Sundance website HERE.

🟡 COMMIT to UNPLUG anytime from Friday night to Saturday night! We'll send you an easy, how-to E-book to help. You can also check out Tech Shabbat, How to Prepare for Tech Shabbat, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, National Day of Unplugging (March 2, 2022), Shabbat Across America and The Shabbos Project.

🟡 PLAN A SHABBAT DINNER! Order Shabbat Dinner and Challah from our partners in LA, NY and Park City. 🕯️🕯️ ✡️🥖🥖🍷🥩🥗

➡️ Please order a special Shabbat Dinner from our kosher restaurant partners in Los Angeles, New York and Park City, for pickup or delivery on Friday! Vendors set their own pricing. Shabbat Lounge does not receive any commissions.

📍 LOS ANGELES:

Shabbat Dinner from Lieders.

Challah from Bibi's Bakery.

📍 NEW YORK:

Shabbat Dinner from Talia's Steakhouse.

Challah from By the Way Bakery.

📍 PARK CITY / SLC:

Shabbat Dinner and Challah from Bistro at the Canyons with Chabad of Park City.

📍 Other cities, please email tamar@meanstreetsmanagement.com.

🕯️ DEDICATION IN MEMORY 🕯️

We are dedicating Saturday night's program in memory of Dr. Bruce M. Marmor (Dov Michael Ben David), the father of a good friend and past Host of Shabbat Lounge at Sundance. May Dr. Marmor's memory be a blessing for all of us. Amen.

✨ ABOUT SHABBAT LOUNGE ✨

SHABBAT LOUNGE during Sundance* is a space (in-person and virtually) for nourishment of the body and soul, and is open to all. We provide a unique space and opportunity for festival goers to connect, unplug and refresh! 

We have had the honor to host Peter Yarrow, Dr. Ruth, Idris Elba, many Sundance filmmakers in and outside competition, and 1000's of Sundance industry executives and attendees.

We look forward to hosting everyone - in person & virtually again next year, in Park City!

HONORARY & PAST SHABBAT LOUNGE AT SUNDANCE HOSTS 

Vaughan & Nick Meyer, Craig Emanuel , Suzanne Felson, Dan Adler, Kenny Deutsch, Suzanne & Willie Mercer, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Marian Koltai-Levine, Victoria Cook, Rafi Marmor, Josh Kaplan, Rachel & Yonah Bookstein, Esther & Mendel Schwartz , Devori & Yehudi Steiger, Tamar Simon

SHABBAT LOUNGE @ SUNDANCE SPONSORS

Vaughan & Nick Meyer, Stephanie & David Schwartz, Shabbat Tent, Jconnect, Chai Center, Chabad Park City, Alevy Family Foundation, Mean Streets Management

JEWISH & ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL PARTNERS, ET AL

Israel Film Center in Manhattan, Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Austin Jewish Film Festival, Berkshire Jewish Film Festival, Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival, Nagle Family Jewish Film Festival in Boca, Boston Jewish Film Festival, Carmel Jewish Film Festival, Charlotte Jewish Film Festival, Mayerson JCC Jewish & Israeli Film Festival in Cincinnati, Cleveland Jewish Film Festival, Denver Jewish Film Festival, Detroit Jewish Film Festival, Edward S. Finkelstein Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival, Honolulu Jewish Film Festival, Indianapolis Jewish and Israeli Film Festival, Long Beach Jewish Film Festival, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, Louisville Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Festival, Nashville Jewish Film Festival at the Gordon JCC, Orlando JCC Central Florida Jewish Film Festival, Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, Riverside Jewish Film Festival, Sacramento Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Film Institute host of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival, Festival de Cinema Judaico - Hebraica SP (Sao Paulo Jewish Film Festival), Southhampton Jewish Film Festival, Spokane Jewish Cultural Film Festival, St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, Stowe Jewish Film Festival in Vermont, Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival, Tucson International Jewish Film Festival, Utah Jewish Film Festival and United Jewish Federation of Utah (Shalom Utah), Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, JxJ: Washington Jewish Film and Music Festival, Wilmington Jewish Film Festival - NC

Bobsleigh Skeleton Israel Olympic Sports Federation (BSI)

Maccabi USA - www.maccabiusa.com

~ SHABBAT LOUNGE is presented by Shabbat Tent and The Chai Center. Shabbat Lounge is a project of JConnect, a 501c(3) US non-profit organization working on strengthening human connections and mindfulness through unplugging events at film and music festivals. Visit shabbattent.org for more information. 

PLEASE NOTE: All events are complimentary. Donations are appreciated! Thank you for helping to support Shabbat Lounge during Sundance. We look forward to seeing you LIVE next year!

Interested in being a Sundance Shabbat Sponsor or Partner?

For more info, please email Tamar Simon: tamar@meanstreetsmanagement.com.

~ For more information about Shabbat Tent, please visit shabbattent.org.

~ For more information about The Chai Center, please visit www.chaicenter.org.

*Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Sundance Film Festival®

 

FAQs

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Please email Tamar Simon: tamar@meanstreetsmanagement.com

GUEST BIOS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY

🔸 BIANCA STIGTER is a writer, director, historian and cultural critic. She made the short film essays "Three Minutes -Thirteen Minutes – Thirty Minutes (2014)", and, "I Kiss This Letter- Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018)". She is the Associate Producer of Steve McQueen’s feature films, "12 Years a Slave," and "Widows". In 2019, she published the book, "Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945."

Bianca's feature film directorial debut, Three Minutes: A Lengthening, World-Premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, followed by Telluride, TIFF, and DOC NY. The film was accepted to the 2022 Palm Springs Film Festival. The film will have its Southeast Premiere at the 2022 Miami Jewish Film Festival.

The film will have a Sundance Premiere on Monday, January 24th. More information at https://tinyurl.com/threeminutessundance2022.

🔸 CRAIG EMANUEL is a Partner at Paul Hastings LLP, and the chair of the firm’s Global Entertainment and Media Practice. Mr. Emanuel works with high-level writers, directors, actors, producers, and production companies to navigate studio and independent film, television, and digital opportunities in an evolving entertainment landscape.

This past year, Mr. Emanuel has worked with numerous projects including representation of writer/director Tony Gilroy in connection with the new 'Star Wars TV' series based on Rogue One, represented the Producers at See-Saw in connection with the sale of Power of the Dog to Netflix, and represented a TV Writer/Producer in connection with the series: Pose FX, American Horror Story, and Impeachment.

🔸 SARA BERNSTEIN, Co-President of Imagine Documentaries, which is part of Imagine Entertainment and Television; Producer of "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing", and EP of "Lucy and Desi". Both documentaries are having Sundance Premieres!

Sara Bernstein is Co-President of Imagine Documentaries and leads the development and production of premium feature docs and non-scripted series, including Rebuilding Paradise and D.Wade: Life Unexpected. Prior to joining Imagine, Sara was SVP, HBO Documentary Films overseeing various award-winning documentary films and nonfiction programming for the network including Emmy® winner The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, Academy Award® and Emmy® winner Citizenfour, Emmy® winner Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Emmy nominated Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and Mommy Dead and Dearest. Over the years, Sara has garnered 10 Emmy® wins and 28 Emmy® nominations, 11 Peabody Awards and the films she has supervised have won 2 Academy Awards® and 13 Academy Award® nominations.

🔸 ADAM NEUHAUS is the Senior Director Of Development at ESPN Films, ESPN 30 for 30 and ESPN+. He is the founder of Neuhaus Ideas, an ideas company serving the media industry, and the founder of NYC-based media networking group Headsets & Highballs. Adam is an active member on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the Ghetto Film School, a Bronx-based nonprofit organization that teaches high school students about film-making. Previous roles include at RadicalMedia, Original Media LLC, Paradigm and William Morris agencies.

🔸 LYDIA DEAN PILCHER, Writer/Director, Jury Member for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize ( Alfred P. Sloan Foundation).

Lydia Dean Pilcher is a writer, director, and two time Emmy-winning and Academy Award nominated producer. She loves to work internationally and recently she directed the feature, “A Call to Spy,” a female-driven World War II spy thriller based on the true stories of Noor Inayat Khan, Vera Atkins, and Virginia Hall streaming on Showtime; in 2018 she produced and co-directed the feature “Radium Girls,” currently on Netflix. She has produced over 40 feature films including “Queen of Katwe,” “The Namesake,” “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Cutie & The Boxer,” “The Lunchbox,” and twelve films with internationally acclaimed director, Mira Nair.

🔸 LIOR GELLER is an Oscar and Emmy nominated Israeli/American filmmaker whose graduate short film from Tel Aviv University holds the Guinness World Record for the most highly decorated student film of all time. He recently directed his first feature for Lionsgate and is currently in pre-production on a TV series based on the story of the Maccabees which he created, followed by a WW2 film based on the true story of the first escape from the first Nazi death camp at the start of the Holocaust.

🔸 SASHA LEVINSON (Sylvie of the Sunshine State), our 2022 Slamdance Partner Filmmaker.

SASHA LEVINSON is a director and writer of films, commercials, and branded content. Sasha spent the formative years of her career shooting music videos with such luminaries as Mary J Blige, 50 Cent, Angelique Kidjo, and Cake.

SYLVIE OF THE SUNSHINE STATE is her first feature film and is premiering at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, in Park City.

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