Join us for the 11th Annual Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival
Schedule Of Events
1:00pm : Shari and Lamb Chop
Introduction by Tulsa puppeteer David Bizarro, Documentary (English – 1h28min). Tickets $12 each.
All guests have a chance to win a Lamb Chop Doll!
This heartfelt and entertaining film charts the life, loves, and career hits and misses of the spunky children’s television pioneer Shari Lewis, a young Jewish girl from the Bronx to the country’s most famous ventriloquist. She was a dancer, singer, and magician, but was best known as the ventriloquist behind sock puppets Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and, of course, Lamb Chop. Featuring ventriloquists she inspired and nostalgia-laden clips, this upbeat portrait brims, like Lewis, with warmth and charm.
7:00pm : The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Drama (French with subtitles - 2h6min). Tickets $12 each.
A film within a film, this loving portrait of the once thriving Sephardic community in Algiers in the 1960s finds a famed French filmmaker returning home with his teenage son to present his beautifully reenacted memoir. Growing up in the final moments of Algeria's pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers his profound fascination with cinema and starts to understand who he truly is. In the present, the adult Antione wanders through the city, immersed in the moments of happiness, laughter, and tears of his youth - spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Chairs: Kate Basch & Donna Gantner
