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*The screening will be followed by a Q&A will be with Julia Wagner, film historian and one of the curators of Jewish Britain on Film.
Dr Julia Wagner is a lecturer and writer specialising in film and television. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from UCL and an MA in Italian Studies. Julia's writing on Jewish-interest culture has been published widely and she regularly lectures to international cultural centres and conferences. She was a curator of Jewish Britain on Film, a JW3/BFI-funded archive project, and is passionate about media education and public engagement.
JW3 presents Jewish Britain On Film in partnership with The Garden Cinema.
Jewish Britain on Film chronicles extraordinary -and some wonderfully ordinary- scenes of 20th Century Jewish life, unearthed by film archives across the nation
Narrated by Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Pearl & Dave), the footage includes rare scenes of an Edwardian Petticoat Lane; a wedding in London’s East End in 1925; the defeat of the British Union of Fascists at Cable Street; Britain’s earliest surfing film, an interview with actor Maureen Lipman at the beginning of her career and many more surprising and tender moments in history captured on screen.
Francesca Ter-Berg (Fran & Flora, Sam Lee) provides a beautiful original soundtrack.
Produced by JW3, this archive film tour has been made possible with support from the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery and the Shoresh Charitable Trust.