Join us for an exclusive screening of Netflix’s Academy Award-nominated documentary LEAD ME HOME, a film that captures the unique perspectives of the unhoused. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from film makers Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk in a Q&A session with Federation President & CEO and Appointed Commissioner of the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Authority Rabbi Noah Farkas.
Reception to follow with light appetizers (vegetarian, kosher-style)
LIMITED CAPACITY; RSVP DEADLINE IS NOON ON FRIDAY, MARCH 4th
Advanced registration for this event has closed. If you would like to attend, please email Jenni at JGellman@JewishLA.org.
This event is hosted by the Federation’s Entertainment, Media and Communications Network (EMC), Community Engagement Strategic Initiative, and Netflix. Learn more about the EMC Network.
For more information about this event, please email Jenni Gellman at JGellman@JewishLA.org.
Speakers
PEDRO KOS | Co-Director
Pedro Kos’ latest documentary feature film REBEL HEARTS, which he directed, wrote, and edited premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is being released worldwide by Discovery+ in the summer of 2021. Prior to that he wrote and produced Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer’s Netflix Original Documentary THE GREAT HACK which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award. His feature directorial debut BENDING THE ARC (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, he edited Jehane Noujaim’s Academy Award nominee THE SQUARE which earned Pedro an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, Lucy Walker’s Academy Award nominee WASTE LAND and THE CRASH REEL (2013 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award winner), Jon Shenk’s THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (2011 TIFF Documentary People’s Choice Award winner) among others. Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University.
JON SHENK | Co-Director
Jon Shenk has been directing and shooting documentaries for 25 years. His most recent film, LEAD ME HOME (co-directed with Pedro Kos) tackles the crisis of homelessness in the United States. Prior to that, he photographed and co-directed three films with his partner, Bonni Cohen: ATHLETE A (Netflix), AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Participant Media/Paramount), and AUDRIE & DAISY (Netflix). His past films also include THE ISLAND PRESIDENT, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN, BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE, and THE BEGINNING. For his work, Jon has won the Independent Spirit Award, IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award, the Peabody Award, a Grierson Award, a Critics Choice Award, and two Emmy Awards. He served as Director of Photography for the 2008 Academy Award-winning SMILE PINKI.
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