BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Accrisoft Corporation//NONSGML Freedom//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a6aff5cf36923e87d91c4b295de8ba71 DTSTAMP:20260413T211025Z DTSTART:20250429T003000Z DTEND:20250429T040000Z LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center\n2590 Walnut St\nBoulder\, CO 80302 SUMMARY:[OFF-CAMPUS] \"For the Living\" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us at the Dairy Arts Center for the premier viewing of For the Living. This special event will include the attendance of Co-Directors Marc Bennett &\; Tim Roper and Producer Lisa Effress\, who will introduce the film and participate in a Q&\;A with Boulder JCC executive director Jonathan Lev after the screening. The film running time is 120 minutes followed by a 30 minute talk back.\n\n\"For the Living weaves in the origins of Ride for the Living\, Holocaust awareness\, and what it means to examine the horrors of dehumanization.\" - Danielle Solzman\nAbout The Film\nIn January 1945\, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski made a treacherous 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Krakow\, Poland\, in search of his family. Decades later\, 250 cyclists from 12 countries retraced his path in an empathetic mission called Ride for the Living\, created and run by JCC Krakow. This powerful documentary draws parallels between Marcel's harrowing experience and the cyclists' journey\, sparking an urgent conversation about our ongoing struggle between dehumanization and empathy. With genocide still occurring nearly 80 years after Auschwitz\, especially with what we are witnessing right now in Ukraine\, this film is a poignant reminder of the importance of saying \"Never Again\" and truly meaning it.\nPresented by the Boulder Jewish Film Festival\nMonday\, April 28 | 6:30 pm - 10 pm | $12\nRegister Here\nFilm Trailer\nAbout the Filmmakers\nMARC BENNETT - CO-DIRECTOR\, CO-WRITER\, CO-PRODUCER\nMarc Bennett has spent his adult life creating powerful imagery and stories in both print and on film.\nAs an artist and photographer\, his work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the United States and is a part of many public and private collections\, including Yad Vashem\, Holocaust Museum LA\, the Museum of Tolerance\, the California Afro-American Museum and the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation.\nAs a director\, he has helmed multiple feature films\, documentaries and music videos. His credits include the feature film Should've Been Romeo\, the documentaries Life Matters\, A Journey of Hope and Survival and the award-winning Hot Flash Havoc\, narrated by Goldie Hawn.\nMarc recently directed the animated short film The Tattooed Torah\, based on the renowned children's book about The Holocaust. The film has been an official selection of over 50 film festivals around the world\, winning numerous awards including Best Animated Short and Best Adaptation.\nMarc just completed co-directing the feature documentary For the Living with Tim Roper and producer Lisa Effress to spark an urgent conversation about how our innate human empathy might actually be the key to disrupting an uncontrollable wave of dehumanization around the world. The same dehumanization which invariably led to a centuries-long pattern of the worst crime imaginable: Genocide.\nTIM ROPER - CO-DIRECTOR\, CO-WRITER\nTim Roper is an award-winning Writer-Director with a diverse mix of experience in both filmmaking and brand building. After graduating with a Film degree from The University of Texas at Austin with a minor in History\, Tim began a 25-year career writing and directing short form branded content and crafting screenplays.\nIn 2016\, Tim founded F. Yeah &\; Associates LLC&mdash\;a live action &ldquo\;branded content engine&rdquo\; that offers both comedic and dramatic storytelling solutions to an industry struggling to balance creativity\, audacity and frugality.\nAs one of the few successful\, road-tested hyphenates in the world of branded content\, Tim's writing and directing work has been honored at Cannes\, Museum of Modern Art\, The Emmys\, The One Club\, The London International Film Festival to name a few and has appeared on the Super Bowl and profiled on 60 Minutes.\nIn 2019\, Tim joined Marc Bennett and Lisa Effress to begin writing\, co-directing and narrating the feature documentary For The Living as a cautionary tale for a society grappling with the two extremes of human nature: Dehumanization and Empathy.\nTim asserts that this film&mdash\;which veers between the intimate and the historical&mdash\;is not merely about The Holocaust. Or any genocide. For The Living is about each and every one of us. And\, ultimately\, which &ldquo\;road&rdquo\; we choose to travel.\nLISA EFFRESS - PRODUCER\nA highly-accomplished Ad Agency Executive Producer\, Lisa Effress spent over two decades shaping scores of award-winning\, multi-million-dollar productions for a litany of blue chip brands as well as plenty of astonishingly smaller and scrappy ones.\nLisa's vast experience and resourcefulness have allowed her to serve as both Head of Production and/or Producer on multiple short films including several for Al Gore's Climate Reality Project documenting the vital work done at COP 28 in Dubai\, UAE.\nLisa recently produced the animated short\, The Tattooed Torah which is based on the renowned children's book that gently and artfully introduced generations of children to The Holocaust. The film version is now being used as curriculum and has been screened by millions of students in classrooms around the world.\nThese experiences culminated in Lisa's current position as Managing Partner of the full-service\, award-winning postproduction facility\, 11 Dollar Bill\, that handled the lion's share of editorial\, animation and graphics for the documentary feature For the Living.\nAs producer of For the Living Lisa was reunited with Co-Directors Marc Bennett and Tim Roper in chronicling the annual cycling event between Auschwitz-Birkenau and Krakow\, Poland called Ride for the Living--a story that provokes an urgent conversation about the way human beings regard and treat one other in our increasingly dehumanizing world.\n \n \n PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR