"As Seen Through These Eyes"

This screening is part of the 2012 Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival:

Special Guest: Fimmaker Hilary Helstein With Q&A to Follow

As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compelling statement about the human spirit, while enduring unimaginable odds.

Hilary Helstein (Director/Producer/Writer) began her career in the world of humanitarian causes. With her work with Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, she directed and produced over 200 segments and interviewed many prominent Holocaust survivors, military liberators and rescuers; among them, Simon Wiesenthal, Nobel Prize recipient Walter Kohn, and renowned Rabbi Graudenz, part of the Sugihara rescue committee. In addition to filmmaking, Hilary has worked in another capacity in the cultural arts. In 2004, she curated an exhibition of paintings, Samuel Bak: Between Worlds on surrealist, Samuel Bak for the Finegood Gallery. Prior to that, Hilary co-curated the art exhibit, Memory and Meaning: the Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Artist, for the Jewish Federation’s Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Hilary started her career in LA in film development for actor Tom Hanks.