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Julia Mintz is a writer, producer and director whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing team for films that have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, have premiered at Cannes, Sundance and TriBeCa, won Emmy and Peabody awards, and can be seen on...
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Julia Mintz is a writer, producer and director whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing team for films that have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, have premiered at Cannes, Sundance and TriBeCa, and won Emmy, Peabody and festival awards.
Sep 6, 2022 · In the stunning new documentary Four Winters, award-winning filmmaker Julia Mintz shatters myths of Jewish passivity during World War II, highlighting stories of Jews who escaped to the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus and banded together in partisan brigades to fight back against Nazis and their collaborators.
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- This Is 11:59 PM
- Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Cannes, and Peabody Award-Winning Filmmakers
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- Featured Partisan Memoirs
FOUR WINTERS features interviews with the last living Partisans who are the centerpiece of this film. By also using personal photographs, letters, journals, rare archival film footage, historic war records, photographs, and artifacts shared with the filmmakers from Partisans’ personal collections, the documentarians weave together many strands to t...
“This is the final hour if we are to make a film with the actual participants in the Partisans. We are losing Holocaust survivors day by day." Michael Berenbaum Professor and Founding Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Julia Mintz, Dan Sturman, Tricia Reidy, along with a distinguished board of advisors bring a depth of experience and a passion to the subject that ensures an outstanding and historically accurate documentary. “It was inevitable that we would die but death would come on our own terms." Gertie Boyarski Resistance Fighter/Survivor
Faye Schulman, Jewish Partisan Hometown: Lenin, Poland "When it was time to be hugging a boyfriend, I was hugging a rifle.” A photographer by trade, Faye served as a nurse and doctor's aide for extreme surgeries, participating in partisan missions, finding much-needed medical supplies. During one mission, she recovered her camera and developing che...
"A Partisan's Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust" – Faye Schulman "The Defiant: A True Story of Escape, Survival & Resistance" – Shalom Yoran "Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II" – Frank Blaichman "Resistance and Survival" – Sarah Ginaite-Rubinson
Aug 17, 2021 · Julia Mintz is a writer, producer, and director whose work on documentary series like Independent Lens and American Masters, and films like the Academy Award shortlisted Nanking, has made her a master of the form.
Julia Mintz is a writer, producer and director whose work focuses on narratives of bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing team for films that have been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, have premiered at Cannes, Sundance and TriBeCa, won Emmy and Peabody awards, and can be seen on...
Sep 9, 2022 · Documentary filmmaker Julia Mintz has been collecting stories for over 20 years. A little over a decade ago, one stopped her in her tracks. It was the story of a young girl who encamped in a...
