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Press Release
NEW DOCUMENTARY FROM AWARD-WINNING JOE FAB
SNEAK PREVIEWS AT THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE IN LOS ANGELES
NOT THE LAST BUTTERFLY co-produced by San Diego artist
LOS ANGELES (May 10, 2016) Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Fab screened his latest effort, NOT The Last Butterfly, in a sneak preview at the prestigious Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on May 3. Fab co-directed and produced the story of a global project to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust with first-time filmmaker Cheryl Rattner Price, the San Diego-based ceramic artist behind The Butterfly Project.
Following the film’s first public viewing, a standing ovation greeted Fab, Rattner Price and Museum of Tolerance director Liebe Geft when they took the stage for what proved to be an extended and occasionally tearful discussion.
“All my hopes for a positive response were met, and I was overtaken by surprise and joy as audience members wept and laughed in all the right places,” Fab reported.
Geft was thrilled at the response, saying “The excitement was palpable as the film took us on an uplifting journey with Cheryl Rattner Price and co-producer/director Joe Fab to see how far The Butterfly Project has spread its joyful wings. Weaving messages of hope and healing with the courageous stories of Holocaust survivors, the film captures how The Butterfly Project evokes memory to inspire a global community to create a more compassionate and peaceful world.”
In addition to chronicling The Butterfly Project, NOT The Last Butterfly features Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger who endured imprisonment in the unusual and lesser-known Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Fab and Rattner Price took Weissberger back to Terezin to dramatize how artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis used early art therapy to help Ela and other children maintain their emotional and psychological sanity while surrounded by the horrors of the Holocaust.
“The essence of The Butterfly Project is to teach and connect us all while creating something of lasting beauty and dignity,” said Rattner Price. “It has been a dream come true to see how the magic of film can create an even bigger ripple effect of remembrance and hope.”
NOT The Last Butterfly was filmed on location in the U.S., Czech Republic, Poland, and Israel and features an original score by composer Charlie Barnett.
Mainstream and Jewish festival screenings are planned beginning in the fall, following several more test screenings. For information about the documentary NOT The Last Butterfly and The Butterfly Project contact the organization’s Executive Director Cheryl Rattner Price at [email protected].
ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT
The Butterfly Project is a global education and arts program whose mission is to paint and display 1.5 million ceramic butterflies to honor and remember each child killed in the Holocaust, and to foster education and awareness of the dangers of hate and bigotry by mobilizing the global community to stand up against injustice and create a more compassionate and peaceful world. The project was co-founded in 2006 in San Diego by educator Jan Landau and artist Cheryl Rattner Price as an initiative to take Holocaust education out of the textbook and bring it to life in a way that inspires students to make the world a better place. As of 2016, installations totaling nearly 150,000 butterflies have been created in communities of all faiths across the United States and in such diverse countries as Israel, Mexico, Poland, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada and Argentina. www.thebutterflyprojectnow.org
ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY
NOT The Last Butterfly tells the inspiring tale of The Butterfly Project, a grassroots arts and education initiative that memorializes the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust through global displays of ceramic butterflies… one butterfly painted for each child. The Butterfly Project's messages of hope and healing are woven together with survivors’ courageous stories of these dark times, including a little-known story of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where a young Ela Weissberger was imprisoned as a child.
Now a survivor in her eighties, Ela reveals how she and other children were given the strength to endure the Holocaust by an artist and teacher who helped them express the trauma of their experiences through art. Both a moving account of survival and a lesson in the healing power of art, NOT The Last Butterfly offers young and old alike a new way to find hope in one of history’s great tragedies and empowering all of us to take action to create a more peaceful world.
SNEAK PREVIEWS AT THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE IN LOS ANGELES
NOT THE LAST BUTTERFLY co-produced by San Diego artist
LOS ANGELES (May 10, 2016) Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Fab screened his latest effort, NOT The Last Butterfly, in a sneak preview at the prestigious Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on May 3. Fab co-directed and produced the story of a global project to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust with first-time filmmaker Cheryl Rattner Price, the San Diego-based ceramic artist behind The Butterfly Project.
Following the film’s first public viewing, a standing ovation greeted Fab, Rattner Price and Museum of Tolerance director Liebe Geft when they took the stage for what proved to be an extended and occasionally tearful discussion.
“All my hopes for a positive response were met, and I was overtaken by surprise and joy as audience members wept and laughed in all the right places,” Fab reported.
Geft was thrilled at the response, saying “The excitement was palpable as the film took us on an uplifting journey with Cheryl Rattner Price and co-producer/director Joe Fab to see how far The Butterfly Project has spread its joyful wings. Weaving messages of hope and healing with the courageous stories of Holocaust survivors, the film captures how The Butterfly Project evokes memory to inspire a global community to create a more compassionate and peaceful world.”
In addition to chronicling The Butterfly Project, NOT The Last Butterfly features Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger who endured imprisonment in the unusual and lesser-known Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Fab and Rattner Price took Weissberger back to Terezin to dramatize how artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis used early art therapy to help Ela and other children maintain their emotional and psychological sanity while surrounded by the horrors of the Holocaust.
“The essence of The Butterfly Project is to teach and connect us all while creating something of lasting beauty and dignity,” said Rattner Price. “It has been a dream come true to see how the magic of film can create an even bigger ripple effect of remembrance and hope.”
NOT The Last Butterfly was filmed on location in the U.S., Czech Republic, Poland, and Israel and features an original score by composer Charlie Barnett.
Mainstream and Jewish festival screenings are planned beginning in the fall, following several more test screenings. For information about the documentary NOT The Last Butterfly and The Butterfly Project contact the organization’s Executive Director Cheryl Rattner Price at [email protected].
ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT
The Butterfly Project is a global education and arts program whose mission is to paint and display 1.5 million ceramic butterflies to honor and remember each child killed in the Holocaust, and to foster education and awareness of the dangers of hate and bigotry by mobilizing the global community to stand up against injustice and create a more compassionate and peaceful world. The project was co-founded in 2006 in San Diego by educator Jan Landau and artist Cheryl Rattner Price as an initiative to take Holocaust education out of the textbook and bring it to life in a way that inspires students to make the world a better place. As of 2016, installations totaling nearly 150,000 butterflies have been created in communities of all faiths across the United States and in such diverse countries as Israel, Mexico, Poland, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada and Argentina. www.thebutterflyprojectnow.org
ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY
NOT The Last Butterfly tells the inspiring tale of The Butterfly Project, a grassroots arts and education initiative that memorializes the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust through global displays of ceramic butterflies… one butterfly painted for each child. The Butterfly Project's messages of hope and healing are woven together with survivors’ courageous stories of these dark times, including a little-known story of the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where a young Ela Weissberger was imprisoned as a child.
Now a survivor in her eighties, Ela reveals how she and other children were given the strength to endure the Holocaust by an artist and teacher who helped them express the trauma of their experiences through art. Both a moving account of survival and a lesson in the healing power of art, NOT The Last Butterfly offers young and old alike a new way to find hope in one of history’s great tragedies and empowering all of us to take action to create a more peaceful world.
An audience discussion followed the sneak preview screening of NOT The Last Butterfly at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. (L to R) Liebe Geft, Cheryl Rattner Price, Joe Fab
Filming in Prague with Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger who spoke with Dutch tourists in the Jewish Museum.