Special Talk AT CIFF LOUNGE with Boaz Divir‍ ‍ on “UNEARTHING WILD STORIES “

Join us for an exclusive talk with Award-winning filmmaker Boaz Dvir tells powerful true stories of ordinary people who face extraordinary circumstances and transform into trailblazers. They include an average schoolteacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator and a national model (Class of Her Own); a World War II flight engineer who transforms into the leader of a secret operation to prevent a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); and a French business consultant who sets out to kill former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie and ends up playing pivotal role in one of history’s most daring hostage-rescue operations (To Kill a Nazi). Dvir’s films have been distributed by PBS, The New York Times, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, and screened worldwide at venues including Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. He has presented and lectured at universities, schools, museums, and other venues around the U.S.