SCREENINGS
Austria
Film Casino
Human World Film Fesitval
Vienna, Austria
PRESS
"HIGHLIGHT OF THIS HUMAN WORLD FILM FESTIVAL"
ANN WALLER, DER STANDARD (VIENNA NEWSPAPER)
"... employs a more recent style of documentary filmmaking best exemplified by Spike Lee’s 2010 work on Hurricane Katrina, If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise – disjointed and nonlinear, creating many sub-narratives that orbit the central theme."
JUSTIN MCCAULEY, THE VIENNA REVIEW
"Your film is already a great success. You’ve brought the truth of what happened in Austria into world consciousness, and now it will always be there – whether the film is shown in theatres, museums, film festivals, schools, or whatever. You’ve exposed the lies of Kurt Waldheim in a singular, powerful way. That piece of film will never go away. It will be with us forever, and you brought it there. Congratulations. The public may get tired of a film’s message, and not want to see it frequently. But these things go in cycles, so don’t be surprised if five years from now there is a great demand for 'Shadows.'"
JERRY COOPERSMITH, SCREENWRITER, WGA
Anthology Film Archives
2nd Ave. and 2 St.,
New York, NY
Lincoln Center
Featured documentary
New York, NY 10022
National Academy of Television Arts and Scienes
NY Emmys
37th St. and Broadway
New York, NY
Attended by Under Secretary of the United Nations
Urania Theater
Vienna Jewish Film Festival
Vienna, Austria
Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
Cinema Paradiso
Fort Lauderdale Fl.
"I believe Gita and Curt Kaufman have have contributed an important service in shining a light on the never-to-be-forgotten Austrian chapter of the Holocaust."
Best Films of 2014
William Wolf, Gannet Publications
"… superb film 'Shadows From My Past.' The interweaving of the family’s story and the testimony of various leaders of Austria works very well.
They were indeed not at all victims. They were the first perpetrators.
Bravo!!"
Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Nobel Prizewinner, Survivor
"Personal testimony is clearly the heart of the movie. As filmmakers from Claude Lanzmann (“Shoah”) to Steven Spielberg (through his Shoah visual history foundation) have shown us, this is what’s essential to share."
New York Times
Above all, it’s testimony on the Holocaust, something about which we do need every scrap so that we may not forget what humanity once allowed to happen."
Village Voice
"Kaufman interviews intellectuals and leading political fiures (Kurt waldheim...) in an ...exploration of collective versus individual guilt ... most chilling are first-hand accounts of overnight transformations of non-Jewish friends into armband-flaunting anti-Semites."
LA Times
"Shadows From My Past" will be essential viewing for students, historians and the general public."
REGISTER MALL, Columbia-Greene County