Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley and partially underwritten by Carolyn Katwan.
2012 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
7pm - Wine and Cheese
7:30pm - Film
The film will be introduced by David Lee Preston, who will also participate in a Q&A after the presentation. Mr. Preston, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, was a senior editor
at CNN and has been a reporter, columnist, and editor for the past 30 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News. His article "A Bird in the Wind," which
chronicles his mother's experience, was featured in the Inquirer's Sunday magazine in 1983 and was the first English-language account of the Jews who hid beneath the city of Lvov.
145 min | Strong R Rating for mature themes, nudity, and sexuality | Subtitled
Price: $12
JCC Member Value Price: $8
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the JCC Welcome Desk or at the door.
David Lee Preston has spent most of the last three decades as a reporter, columnist and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, where he is currently an assistant city editor. His Mother's Day 1983 article, A Bird in the Wind, published five months after the death of his mother, Halina Wind Preston, was the first English-language account of the 14-month survival of his mother and nine other Jews in the sewers beneath the city of Lvov during the Holocaust, the story upon which the Oscar-nominated Polish movie In Darkness was based. His 1985 article Journey To My Father's Holocaust, in which he traveled with his father to Auschwitz and Buchenwald and other places of his father's past, was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Associated Press Managing Editors. He has been a senior editor at CNN in Atlanta and a reporter at the Kansas City Star and the Wilmington News-Journal, and he reported throughout the Middle East for Universal Press Syndicate during the Iranian revolution in 1979. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. His 1992 wedding to Ronda Goldfein, currently the executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, was attended by millions who read about it in the epilogue of James McBride's international bestseller, The Color Of Water.