Joe's Violin (2016)
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Country:
USA
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Duration:
24 min
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Genre:
history
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Director:
Kahane Cooperman
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Producer:
Kahane Cooperman, Maria Ibrahimova
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Cast:
Kathleen Drohan, Joesph Feingold, Regina Feingold, Ame Gilbert
About film
In this award-winning documentary short, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin to a 12-year-old schoolgirl from America’s poorest district, which changes her life and, unexpectedly, his own life as well. Joe’s Violin shows how even one small act can have a great impact.
Rewards and nominations
- Academy Award 2017 — nominee: Best Short Subject Documentary
- Nantucket Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Montclair Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Milwaukee Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Audience Award, Best Short Film
Director
American producer, film, and theatre director. She graduated from the University of Chicago and Columbia University. In 2016 Cooperman released Joe's Violin which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. She created seven short documentaries about autism, some of them for HBO. She was a presenter, executive producer, and director of the non-fiction series Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders. She won eleven Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards for her work at The Daily Show.
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Director
American producer, film, and theatre director. She graduated from the University of Chicago and Columbia University. In 2016 Cooperman released Joe's Violin which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. She created seven short documentaries about autism, some of them for HBO. She was a presenter, executive producer, and director of the non-fiction series Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders. She won eleven Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards for her work at The Daily Show.
