Q&A with Director Yael Melamede moderated by Jewish Film Festival Curator David Schwartz

Thursday, Apr. 24 2025, 7:00

• Yael Melamede is the co-founder of SALTY Features, an award-winning, independent production company based in New York City whose goal is to create media that is thought-provoking, vital, and enhances the world. Melamede’s documentary credits include 1341 Frames of Love and War (2022), the Steven Spielberg six-part series Why We Hate (2019), When I Walk (News & Documentary Emmy Award Winner, 2015), (Dis)honesty—The Truth About Lies (2015), Inocente (Academy Award Winner, Best Doc Short, 2013), and My Architect (Academy Award Nominee, 2004). Yael was an architect before becoming a filmmaker and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
• David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.

Tickets: $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)

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