11 Dollar Bill Produces THE TATTOOED TORAH
27/04/2021
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Brie Clayton April 26, 2021
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Supported by the Goldrich Foundation and USC's Shoah Foundation, the film has screened at dozens for festivals and is now streaming on IWitness, an education platform.
The Tattooed Torah, now available for screening on the USC Shoah Foundation's IWitness website, is an animated short based on the children's book by Marvell Ginsburg. Like the book, the film is meant to educate children about the Holocaust through the true story of a small Torah that was confiscated by the Nazis during World War II yet miraculously survived. Narrated by Ed Asner, the film has screened to broad acclaim at more than three dozen film festivals across the globe and qualified for Academy Award consideration. A Spanish-language version has just been released, while versions captioned in more than ten other languages, including Hebrew, are on the way.
The effort to adapt the book for the screen was spearheaded by Marvell Ginsburg's daughter, Beth Kopin, who served as executive producer. The film was co-written and directed by Marc Bennett, an artist, photographer and film director, and produced by Lisa Effress, managing partner of 11 Dollar Bill. The design and post-production studio, with facilities in Boulder and Chicago, provided editorial and post-production services, including transforming artist Martin Lemelman's original book illustrations into luminous, dimensional animation. 11 Dollar Bill CEO John Polk was the film's editor.
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Still, considerable effort was needed to bring the film to fruition. One challenge involved turning the book's evocative, hand-drawn illustrations into multi-dimensional landscapes (accomplished by 11 Dollar Bill CCO Christian Robins and animator Jeffrey Pittle). Robins and a team of nine others separated the illustrations into foreground, mid-ground and background layers, and added camera movement, sunlight, rain and other environmental effects. In addition, Bennett and Effress sought out Lemelman, who was living in semi- retirement in Florida, and got him to create over one hundred additional drawings to fill in gaps and give the film needed scope.
Transforming Ginsburg's nuanced narrative into a lively visual story also proved daunting. An early version of the film ran 45 minutes. The team felt that was too long for the attention spans of small children, so they enlisted Polk to edit. He trimmed the cut to just over 20 minutes and homed in on the story's emotional core and powerful message of redemption. John is a skilled storyteller who made the film more succinct and compelling, Effress recalls. The pacing now feels a lot like the book, remarked Polk. It's true to the spirit of Marvell Ginsburg's original story.
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As a feature of the Shoah Foundation's educational IWitness platform, the film has the potential to reach many more people, young and old alike. 11 Dollar Bill works on animation projects all the time, but this was our first children's film, says Effress. It's theme and message made it very special. I look forward to doing more projects like this.
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