Coordinated by The Screen Actors Guild – Michigan
Seats are limited, please call 248.432.5461

1) Lunch & Learn Panel Discussion 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Meet the new film capital of the world: Michigan! Some of the country’s leading actors, directors and filmmakers are making their way to our state. How did it all happen? Members of the Jewish community who were instrumental in bringing a bit of Hollywood to Michigan will tell the incredible story and discuss what it can mean for the future.

Invited speakers include Jim Burnstein, screen writing professor at the University of Michigan; Ken Droz of the Michigan Film Office; Marcia Fishman, executive director of the Screen Actors Guild– Michigan office; and Andy Meisner, Oakland County treasurer.
Workshop includes a sandwich, drink and dessert.

Cost: $20

2) Afternoon Actors’ Workshop 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Come learn everything about the film industry with a successful actor (who is both Jewish and a Michigan native). With the support of the Screen Actors Guild-Michigan branch, we present Steve Goldsmith, who appeared in the films “Hoffa,” “Turk 182,” “Zelig” and “Street Boss,” among others.

Join us for this exciting and informative workshop which will leave you ready to be a Hollywood fi lm star! Workshop includes coffee and light refreshments.

Cost: $20

3) Afternoon Technical Workshop 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. - CANCELLED
Have you ever wondered how a movie is made? Do you dream of becoming a filmmaker? Is film technology right up your alley? Then don’t miss our workshop with invited facilitator Mark Adler of the Michigan Production Alliance, an expert on all technological aspects that lead to successful movie making.

Workshop includes coffee and light refreshments.

Cost: $20

Featuring Director Joshua Sinclair, 7 p.m.
Joshua Sinclair is an author, actor, director and professor in comparative theology. He also is a physician, with a specialty in tropical diseases, who just returned from volunteer work in Haiti.

Sinclair’s most recent film is “Jump!” which he both wrote and directed. “Jump!” is an  extraordinary true story about the early life of legendary Hollywood photographer Phillippe Halsman, known for his portraits of Alfred Hitchcock, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, Dorothy Dandridge and Pablo Picasso, among others, as well as a series of photos showing celebrities jumping.

On Sept. 10 1928, Halsman’s father, Morduch, was found dead during a hiking trip with his 21-year-old son, an engineering student. The police arrested Phillippe and charged him with his father’s murder. The subsequent trial, a fiasco riddled with anti-Semitism, attracted international attention; among those who spoke out on Phillippe’s behalf were Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann. “Jump” stars British actor Ben Silverstone (“Get Real”) as Phillippe and Patrick Swayze, in one of his last and most critically acclaimed roles, as Phillippe’s attorney, Richard Pressburger, a former boxer.

In addition to his work on “Jump,” Joshua Sinclair served as co-author on “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” the story of an aristocratic Jewish-Italian family perched on the dangerous edge of history in the late 1930s, and wrote the screenplay for “Just a Gigolo,” Marlene Dietrich’s last film.

7 p.m.:
Please join us for Joshua Sinclair’s presentation
Marion & David Handleman Hall and Auditorium

Dessert reception to follow in the Janice Charach Gallery.

This is an invitation-only event for our patrons.
For more information about becoming a patron, please call 248.432.5461 or e-mail info@jccdet.org.

Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit - West Bloomfield

Please RSVP by Friday, April 2 to Jaymie Morton: jmorton@jccdet.org