The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival seeks to enrich the moviegoer experience by presenting special guest speakers before and after select screenings. A variety of filmmakers, academics, actors, authors, critics and other experts engaged with us this year once again for introductory remarks and post-film Q&A sessions, at no additional cost.
Select highlights of the 2021 AJFF are below.
- Ameen Nayfeh, Director – 200 Meters
- Ali Suliman, Actor – 200 Meters
- Jonathan Silverman, Actor – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Robby Benson, Actor – The Chosen
- Jeremy Kagan, Filmmaker – The Chosen
- Nancy Buirski, Director, Producer – A Crime on the Bayou
- Lolis Eric Elie, Writer; featured in – A Crime on the Bayou
- Nir Bergman, Director – Here We Are
- Shai Avivi, Actor – Here We Are
- Barry Avrich, Director – Howie Mandel: But, Enough About Me
- Howie Mandel, Comedian – Howie Mandel: But, Enough About Me
- Alicia Malone, Turner Classic Movies host – Little Shop of Horrors
- Samuel H. Levine, Actor – Minyan
- Ron Rifkin, Actor – Minyan
- Eric Steel, Director – Minyan
- Oren Jacoby, Director – On Broadway
- Tovah Feldshuh, Actor & New Author; panelist for On Broadway and star of Shorts Program 3 film, The Book of Ruth
- Jeffrey Seller, Theatre Producer, featured in – On Broadway
- Jesse Dylan, Director – Soros
- Ruth Messinger, Former President & CEO of American Jewish World Service – Soros
- Rashad Robinson, American civil rights leader and president of Color of Change – Soros
- Ben Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Movies host – Spaceballs
- Eytan Fox, Director, Writer – Sublet
- John Benjamin Hickey, Actor – Sublet
- Niv Nissim, Actor – Sublet
- Brad Rothschild, Director – They Ain’t Ready for Me
- Tamar Manasseh, Subject of film, Founder/President of Mothers Against Senseless Killings Chicago – They Ain’t Ready for Me
- Anders Østergaard, Director – Winter Journey
- Martin Goldsmith, NPR Radio Host; author of autobiographical book on which film is based – Winter Journey
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