Jewish Film Festivals

In class on Wednesday, we talked about the rising popularity of Jewish Film Festivals. My community at home has a Jewish Film Festival each year. It is called "Jewish Cinema South" and it travels around the South showing several different films to the local communities. Though most of the communities where the films air are extremely small compared to the Jewish communities of LA or NYC, there is still a big outpour of support from the local communities to support this event.

I think that the main purpose that Jewish Cinema South serves is education. It brings in information about Judaism and presents it to audiences of Jews and non-Jews. Many non-Jews in the area may not know much about Judaism and they may have never actually met a Jew, but they normally know the sterotypes about Jews that popular media portrays. I think that this film festival is a great way to reach out and educate others about all aspects of Judaism.