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2019
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September 5th 1972, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes’ quarters at the Munich Olympics. The world watched live on television.
For the first time, this story is told through the eyes of four women. It’s a story of intrigue; secret identities; it’s about love and death; conflict and reconciliation; war and peace. Their fates redirected. Their well-being and views impacted by the trauma.
These four women’s lives are changed forever. But they weren’t the only ones.
Suivant le massacre de onze athlètes israéliens lors des Jeux olympiques de Munich en 1972, la vie de quatre femmes est changée à jamais.
"The grey space is carved directly into a grassy hillside, evoking an open wound. In this way, the Munich 1972 Massacre Memorial, opened on Sept. 6 2017, is emblematic of the pain that has endured for many since that year’s Olympic Games, when 11 members of the Israeli team and one German police officer were killed by members of the Palestinian group Black September."
From the NY Times
“Zuckerman’s documentary and the women it highlights are fascinating.”
Women in Hollywood
This film is supported by the Canadian Media Fund and was broadcast in Canada on Documentary Channel to mark the anniversary of the tragic event in September and Société Radio Canada in French.
Premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival; Dok Fest Munich; Tel Aviv Jewish Film Festival, Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival and a special presentation at Doc Edge, New Zealand.
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Last year was the 50th anniversary of the terrorist attack. We commemorated it with special events in many countries.
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2016
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After Debbie hears about her father's life-changing musical experience in a refugee camp, she tracks down the famous conductor years later, with unexpected consequences.
Debbie sais depuis l'enfance qu'un événement musical a bouleversé la vie de son père alors qu'il était dans un camps de réfugiés. Longtemps après, elle retrouve le chef d'orchestre qui présidait à cet événement provoquant une suite inattendue à cette histoire.
"Francine Zuckerman’s extraordinarily charming time-shifting short…you won’t see a more marvelous 12-minute tribute to one of the giants of American music."
- The Independent, New York
Short Film, 12 minutes
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Winner of ‘Best Drama’ at the Toronto International Short Film Festival
Winner of Best Short Film,Screen Writer's Awards, New Zealand
Nominated for Best Cinematography in Dramatic Short, CSC Award
Nominated for Best Editing Dramatic Short, Canadian Cinema Editor's Award
World premiere at Palm Springs Short Fest
Screenings include: LA ShortFest; St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival and New York Jewish Film Festival, Film Society at Lincoln Center; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013
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We Are Here is about how a country, a people, a community and individual families are impacted by the events of World War II. This groundbreaking new film excavates the fragile, shaky rebirth of Polish Jewish life in the shadow of the Holocaust.
“Although it focuses on Jewish people in Poland, the message that we should all find pride in our heritage, no matter what it is, makes this worthwhile viewing for everybody, regardless of background.”
- Toronto Film Scene
Documentary, 81 minutes
Premiered at DocEdge New Zealand Doc Film Festival; Berlin Jewish Film Festival; Warsaw Jewish Film Festival; Polish Film Festival, NYC; Laemmle,Theatre LA; Sydney Jewish Museum, Australia; JW3 London; Cinema du Parc, Montreal; Royal Cinema,Toronto; VanCity, Vancouver; Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Cinematheques.
2002
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Based on the short stories of world renown Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, this is a series a six short half hour films by six different women directors. Co-produced by Z films, the series features the diversity of Atwood’s vision and voice. The stories include: Polarities, Betty, The Man from Mars, Death by Landscape, Isis in the Darkness and The Sunrise. Zuckerman co-wrote and directed The Sunrise.
"Atwood’s short stories are wonderfully funny. rich and dark”
- TV Guide
Series, 6 x 24 minutes
Nominated for Gemini for Best Series.
Premiered at FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels)
2000
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Evocative, passionate and poetic. Passengers is a compelling and moving exploration of the relationship between a daughter and her father as she matures from childhood to adulthood.
“…a skillfully impressionistic 15 minutes memory trip…beautifully evoked in almost wordless imagery.”
Toronto Star
Short Film, 15 minutes
Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and then toured the world.
1997
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Exposure- Environmental Links to Breast Cancer explores how toxins and radiation in the environment are one affecting our health. Hosted by Singer, actor, and breast cancer survivor, Olivia Newton-John.
"This crisp and groundbreaking documentary tackles a disturbing environmental threat to our health, and does it with clarity, passion, and visual verve."
-Toronto Star
Documentary, 53 minutes.
Winner of best Health Documentary at the New York Film & Video Festival.
1996
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Adapted from the successful 36 character off-Broadway play, Punch Me in the Stomach, is the triumph of one man a Polish born concentration camp survivor, as told by his comedienne daughter, Deb.
"Extraordinary work, extraordinary story teller...We laugh, we weep"
- The Village Voice
Feature Performance, 72 minutes
Premiered at the London International Film Festival and then screened around the world.
1989
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In this provocative documentary film, Half the Kingdom, seven remarkable Jewish women from Canada; the United States and Israel , strive to find common ground between religious and cultural tradition and contemporary feminist principles.
“A bracing inspiring film about equality and social change.”
- San Francisco Chronicle
Documentary, 58 minutes
Invited to participate in more than twenty international film festivals
nominated for a Gemini for best direction and best documentary
Gold Apple Award
Red Ribbon Award
In Development
The Edible Woman
A television adaptation of the groundbreaking first novel by world renowned Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood. Set in Toronto, in the mid 1960’s, this film tells the story of Marian McAlpin (early 20s), whose safe, carefully crafted world includes a promising career, a good circle of friends and a perfect fiancé, Peter, a successful lawyer. When a hipster, eccentric English student comes in the picture, he introduces Marian to a new world full of music, poetry, sexual liberation and inspires Marian to challenge her prescribed ideas of womanhood.
Witty, subversive, hilarious, The Edible Woman is dazzling and utterly original. It is Margaret Atwood’s brilliant first novel, and the book that introduced her as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life.
" Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal."
The Times (London)
Alma Rosé
Alma Rosé is born into a famous musical elite family in turn of the century Vienna but her life changes when she’s interned in the dreaded Auschwitz concentration camp. To save her life and the lives of many others, Alma becomes the conductor of the legendary Auschwitz women's orchestra. This is the story of Rosé and the survivors of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra and their offspring.
A Canada /France feature documentary with Les Films à Cinq.
Support our film in US through The Film Collaborative.
A Place Called Home
When internationally acclaimed comedienne, Deb Filler loses her beloved mother in New Zealand she embarks on an emotional quest to understand the complexities of home and identity by taking on the role of her mother performing in the country of her mother’s birth, (Germany) a country that comes with huge challenges.
A Canada/New Zealand feature documentary with Bloom Pictures.
Anna
A feature drama set in 1990 Poland, not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Anna Edelstein who lives in Canada, learns from her dying mother, a Holocaust survivor, that she had an older sister, who went missing during WWII in Poland. She sets out to find her sister with surprising consequences.
A Canada/ Poland/ German co-production
Overview
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"To record the world as it is. To set down the past before it is forgotten. To produce order out of chaos. To delight and instruct. To paint a portrait of society and its ills. To express the unexpressed of the masses. To name the hitherto unnamed. To defend the human spirit and human dignity and honor. Because to create is human. Because to create is Godlike. To serve Art. To serve History. To subvert the establishment. To celebrate life and all its complexity. To praise the Universe. To allow the possibility of hope and redemption." - Margaret Atwood
Francine Zuckerman
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Producer
Writer
Francine Zuckerman and her company Z films inc. has produced a wide range of films and television programs with an emphasis on adaptation from fiction and theatre, social documentary and performing arts as well as short films.
As writer, producer and director, Zuckerman has won numerous awards and her work has been recognized at film festivals around the world.
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