The Righteous Conversations Project
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The Righteous Conversations Project, founded in 2011, brings teaching artists and teens together with Holocaust Survivors, to tell the elders’ stories of overcoming and resilience using hand-crafted stop motion animation techniques. The Righteous Conversations Project is one in which Survivors frame a young person's encounter with the Holocaust as a source of motivation and activism. These stories
02/05/2024
Tonight The Righteous Conversations Project is honored to present a new film, She is Us, about Judge Songhai Armstead and her dream to serve vulnerable, justice-impacted people in Los Angeles County. This is a coproduction with Second Nurture. Join us for the film premiere TONIGHT, May 2, 7-8:30, at the Skirball Cultural Center. It's FREE and there are a few tickets left. RSVP at https://2nurture.networkforgood.com/events/69743-2n-gathering-and-film-premiere?utm_campaign=dms_email_blast_3288344
Producers: C. Lily Ericsson, Samara Hutman, Cheri Gaulke
Directors: C. Lily Ericsson, Samara Hutman
Created in collaboration with young artists dedicated to tell the stories of children who are system-impacted.
09/10/2023
Thank you Tallgrass Film Association for awarding our film an Honorable Mention. A Prayer For My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story is an animated film that chronicles the extraordinary saga of Holocaust survivor Eva Brettler – a child facing brutality and profound loss who finds sustenance in faith and her own dreams for the future. From the loss of her parents to a forced death march across Europe, young Eva survives Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps, the destruction of her family, and the near destruction of European Jewry to emerge, with a tender heart and faith intact, crediting the goodness and decency of helpers and caretakers she encountered along the way.
This film was created by Ruben Barrett, Raisa Effress, Sophia Evans, Lauren Fuchs, Katie Hadsock-Longarzo, Ian Kim, Eve Levy, Timothy Lim, Asher Meron, Marion Ochoa, Isabella Rahi, Hank Schoen, and Olivia Uzielli, working with artist mentor C. Lily Ericsson. The film’s score was created by Charles Weiner, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, a filmmaker/composer and the grandson of Eva Brettler. Executive produced by Cheri Gaulke and Samara Hutman.
The teen filmmakers are in grades 9-12, aged 13-17 and come from southern California schools, Harvard-Westlake School, Brentwood School, George Washington, Marymount High, and Rise Kohyang High School; and from Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania. They came together in a summer program at Harvard-Westlake School created by The Righteous Conversations Project, a collaboration of Holocaust survivors and teens. RCP was founded in Los Angeles in 2011 to meet the precious moment of intersection between the last living witnesses to the Holocaust, and the young generation to whom they will hand their living memories, and the lessons they have to teach us for enduring stewardship.
04/07/2023
We are thrilled to announce that A Prayer for My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story has been selected by the Cordillera International Film Festival. Thanks Cordillera for helping us share Eva Brettler's incredible story as a child survivor of the Holocaust. More info about how to watch the film to come.
Cordillera International Film Festival State of the Art Venues. Cash Prizes. Lodging Provided for all Official Selections. Iconic & Emerging Voices Grand & Special Jury (see below). Industry Netwo...
