[IMC-Editorial] Trembling Colorado-NC-NYC Re-Opening-Univ. Tour-Orthodox Outreach-Canada-S Amer

[Sandi Dubowski]

Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Supporters,

 From Sri Lanka to MTV, from German television to Hillel's Schusterman 
International Leadership Assembly, Trembling Before G-d continues to impact 
communities and people worldwide. Here is our Fall schedule - theatrical 
releases in Colorado/ North Carolina/ Atlanta / Salt Lake City / Canada, 
University Lecture Tour, NYC One-Year Anniversary Re-Opening, Orthodox 
Outreach Project, Christian seminary tour, South America tour, tons of 
special screenings all over the country - much info below. If you would 
like to book Trembling in your community, synagogue, university, school, 
church, organization, college, conference, local theater, festival, arts 
center, JCC, Federation, etc. contact info at tremblingbeforeg-d.com - 
DVD/home video will not be released until Fall 2003. We are eligible for 
Academy Award for Best Documentary - please let any friend who is an 
Academy voter know. And if you would like to intern / volunteer, please 
contact us.

Trembling Colorado - Denver/Boulder Opening on October 3rd. Crossroads 
Common 6 - 303-443-MANN (6266), Boulder and October 4th, Chez Artiste, 
Denver (303) 757-7161
Denver - Sat./Sun. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:15 / Weekdays: 5, 7, 9:15 and Boulder 
starting Oct 4th- 1:00  3:00  5:00  7:30  9:30
Special Events
Thursday, October 3rd 6:30 PM - Crossroads Common 6, Boulder - Screening 
followed by conversation with Director DuBowski and Rabbi Zalman 
Schachter-Shalomi. Reb Zalman has held the World Wisdom Seat at The Naropa 
Institute and is a major figure in the Jewish spiritual renewal movement, 
presenting the central teachings of Hasidism and Kabbalah in a contemporary 
and heartfelt manner.
Friday, October 4th Shabbat with Director DuBowski and the Jewish Renewal 
Community of Boulder (Friday night) - 303) 271-3543 or (303) 
271-3542   info at jrcb.org
Saturday, October 5th  Shabbat with Director DuBowski and Aish Kodesh 
(Saturday) - email Jonathan_Bein at msn.com. 303-247-0099.  Seudah Shlishit 
with Reb Zalman.
Saturday, October 5th Q & A with Director DuBowski at Crossroads Common 6, 
Boulder after 7:30 and 9:30 shows. With Congregation Bonai Shalom.
Sunday, October 6th. Q & A with Director DuBowski after 3 and 5 PM shows at 
Denver's Chez Artiste. Conversation with Rabbi Steven Foster of Denver's 
largest synagogue, Temple Emanuel, and other religious leaders after 7 PM show.
Monday, October 7th. CAJE (Colorado Agency for Jewish Education) Hebrew 
High event with high school seniors at Chez Artiste, Denver 7 PM screening 
to be followed by discussion with Director DuBowski, Rabbi Steve Greenberg 
and CAJE staff..
Tuesday, October 8th Orthodox panel with Rabbi Steve Greenberg, Denver 
therapist and Rabbi Howard Hoffman, and Orthodox psychologist, Evelyn 
Lifsey, after 7 PM screening.

Trembling University Screening and Lecture Tour Kicks off
University of Connecticut (Oct 3rd) Phone: 860.486.5821
Bowdoin College in Maine (Oct 9th) is (207) 725-3014.
University of Oregon-Eugene (Oct 29th) lzreis at darkwing.uoregon.edu .
University of Florida-Gainesville (Nov 6th) ph: (352) 392 9247
Religion. Understanding. Sexuality. Faith. Love...
Bring the award-winning film Trembling Before G-d and director Sandi Simcha 
DuBowski to your campus. Call Keppler Associates at 703-516-4000.
Ideal for building collaborations with Hillel, Film/Art departments, gay 
and lesbian campus groups, university chaplains, interfaith groups, social 
work/counseling, Jewish Studies, Religion Studies, Women's Studies, 
Diversity committees, Student Activities Committees. Please share with any 
friends in academia. We had an amazing screening at the Hillel's 
International Schusterman Leadership Assembly - hundreds of students packed 
a screening room, watching even from the windows outside with a discussion 
that lasted til 2 AM.

North Carolina / Christian Seminary Tour
Madstone Cary 6 Cinema - Wednesday, October 9th - Opening Night with 
Director DuBowski and Rabbi Steve Greenberg 919.481.4000
Durham's Carolina Theater, Thursday October 10th - Opening Night Q & A with 
Director DuBowski and Rabbi Steve Greenberg. 919-560-3030
We begin our meetings with Christian Seminaries in the American South. We 
screened as well at the Gill Foundation's National Faith Leadership Project 
at the DC National Cathedral College of Preachers. We hope the film can be 
used as a tool in Christian communities around issues of homosexuality. If 
you suggest any churches, denominational conferences, religious leaders, 
radio shows, journals, email lists that can promote or screen the film, 
please let us know.

Take Back the Cinema
"I am not about to create Hasidic, gay action figures and do tie-ins with 
McDonald's or Moishe's Deli to help propel Trembling."
Take Back the Cinema - Don't Give Up Your Power! By Sandi Simcha DuBowski 
in The Independent Film and Video Monthly.
http://www.tremblingbeforeg-d.com/indieFVM.html

Orthodox Outreach Project: Israel - Reaching 10,000 Israeli Religious Students
Tanya Zion has been hired as an Israeli Outreach Director to lay the ground 
before our Keshet TV broadcast in Spring 2003.
She has been leading Small Group Screenings and Discussions with school 
principals, educators, rabbis, and mental health professionals in the 
Israeli school system, targeting especially the religious school system. 
While Orthodox Jews in Israel have been more resistant to the film than in 
the Diaspora, when a private screening was offered to principals to help 
them better take care of their students, not one turned us down. While the 
conversations were heated, all the principals agreed that since the film 
focuses attention on compassion, not changing halacha or Jewish law, it 
should be shown to their staff. Tanya is now recruiting Orthodox 
facilitators and is working with rabbis and therapists to plan a two-day 
training seminar in order to carry the film into the Orthodox educational 
system reaching the teachers of 10,000 religious students.

Orthodox Outreach Project: North America / Supportive Orthodox Mental 
Professionals
We have completed a five-week strategic planning process with the generous 
donation of time and guidance from angels Nelson Gonzalez, Aliza Mazor, 
Jeremy Burton and Laurie Heller and have finished a proposal that we will 
begin passing to funders. We will soon update you about our exciting plans 
to use Trembling to launch a new educational initiative in North America's 
Orthodox community.
Please send us any connections to funders who want to move the film into 
the hardest-to-reach religious places where it has the ability to make a 
profound difference.
We are compiling a list of Orthodox mental health professionals who have 
been supportive to gays and lesbians in their practice and need your 
suggestions.
We have been flooded by worldwide requests for help and need to be able to 
direct people to affirmative therapists.
Note: special screening in Deal, NJ through the JCC on 10/23 - many gay men 
have come out in the Syrian Jewish community in the past year since the 
film opened - this program and panel will begin a public dialogue. DuBowski 
and Rabbi Greenberg in attendance.

Interns/Volunteers - We need your help!

Reopening NYC - One-Year Anniversary - Symphony Space and BAM beginning 
October 25th. We need volunteers to form a Trembling Anniversary Team and 
cover Brooklyn and Manhattan with flyers! Many special events including one 
with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex.
I will also serve the weekend before on the 10th Anniversary Hamptons Film 
Festival Documentary Jury.

Canada Smash Success!
Trembling ran for six weeks in Toronto.
Seeing the cover of "The Globe and Mail" with a caption reading "Trembling 
Before G-d: A Landmark" was extraordinary. And the front-page Globe Review 
feature - Matthew Hays' "Loving G-d, being g-y" is the most clever title 
yet. We had an interfaith panel of seven GLBT religious leaders - Orthodox, 
Christian, Muslim, Sikh and Catholic (the room was electric
)
Opens Montreal November 8-21 at Cinema du Parc. Vancouver TBA January….
Reopening Oct 7-8 at the Royal Cinema and Oct 9-10 at Music Hall in 
Toronto. Winnipeg Cinematheque 10/4.
10/18-24 Broadway Cinema, Saskatoon. 11/7 Thunder Bay, Ontario. 11/18 
Hamilton Jewish Film Festival. 11/24 London Jewish Film Festival.
"5 STARS! A KNOCKOUT!" Ingrid Randoja, NOW
"One of the best and the bravest!
Extraordinary
A remarkableble film" Ray 
Conlogue, The Globe and Mail
"A landmark" - Matthew Hays, Toronto Globe and Mail
"**** Filled with love" - Kim Linekin, EYE Magazine
"***1/2" - Lauren Mechling, National Post

South America Tour
Do you have contacts in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay? Let us know. Trembling 
- DuBowski, Rabbi Greenberg and David go on the road mid-November to Sao 
Paulo for MIX BRASIL's 10th Anniversary, to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, 
and Montevideo


Germany /France TV Broadcast - 20% higher viewers than ARTE normally 
screens on that theme evening. An incredible response. Good news - Paris 
theatrical release this July at MK2 Beaubourg.

 From MTV to the Fruit Farm - Trembling was selected for MTV's Diversity 
Film Series kick-off
After our screening at the Paramount screening roomm, 
we did a satellite conversation with MTV's affiliates in NYC, Atlanta, 
Chicago, and Los Angeles. Thanks to Michael Sanchez. We also had a great 
screening at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons, a speech on Trembling's 
whirlwind year at The Creative Capital Foundation retreat, and my favorite 
festival yet - at Fruit Farm Film Festival in Oregon where we screened in a 
barn!

Other Fall screenings
Now open at the Maple Art, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit
10/3 Colorado Trembling - Crossroads Common 6, Boulder and 10/4 Chez 
Artiste, Denver -DuBowski and Rabbi Greenberg in-person
10/4 Winnipeg Cinematheque
10/6 Colonial Theater- Keene, New Hampshire
10/7-8 at the Royal Cinema and 10/9-10 at Music Hall in Toronto.
10/8 Bowdoin College - Spindel Memorial Lecture, Brunswick ME -DuBowski 
in-person
10/8 Carleton College, Northfield, MN
10/8 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
10/9 North Carolina Theatrical - Madstone Cary 6 (10/9) and Carolina 
Theater, Durham (10/10) -DuBowski & Rabbi Greenberg in-person
10/9 UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles, CA
10/9 SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
10/10 Iowa State University, SUB Films, Ames, IA
10/10 Memphis Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Memphis, TN
10/10 Williams College Department of Theater, Williamstown, MA
10/11 Pasco Hernando Community College, New Port Richey, FL
10/12 Congregation B'nai Israel, Sacramento, CA
10/13 Alfred University, Alfred, NY
10/13 Community Synagogue, Rye, NY - in person
10/13 North Shore Jewish Center, Port Jefferson Station, NY
10/16 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
10/16 Temple Kol Ami, Plantation, FL
10/16 Miami University Hillel, Oxford, OH
10/16 10th Anniversary Hamptons Film Festival - DuBowski on Documentary Jury
10/18-24 Broadway Cinema, Saskatoon.
10/20 Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, Woodbridge, CT
10/20 Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center, Kalamazoo, MI
10/21 Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
10/23 JCC of Greater Monmouth County, Jewish Film Festival, Deal, NJ. - 
DuBowski and Rabbi Greenberg in person
10/23 San Jose Jewish Film Festival, San Jose, CA
10/24 JCC of Greater Monmouth County, NJ
10/24 Jewish Community Agency of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
10/25 Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, Santa Rosa, CA
10/25 Canal Place, New Orleans, LA
10/26-10/27 BAM Rose Cinemas opens for special weekend - DuBowski, Rabbi 
Greenberg and others featured in Trembling in-person
10/26-10/27 and 11/1-11/3 Symphony Space, special two weekends- DuBowski, 
Rabbi Greenberg and others featured in Trembling in-person
10/29 University of Oregon, Eugene - DuBowski in-person
10/30 Olympia Film Society - DuBowski in-person
11/2 Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha
11/6 University of Florida, Jewish Studies Dept, Gainesville, FL - DuBowski 
in-person
11/7 Temple Adath Israel, Lexington, KY
11/7 Thunder Bay, Ontario
11/8 Cinema du Parc, Montreal - DuBowski and Rabbi Greenberg in person 
during theatrical run
11/8 Market Arcade Film and Art Center, Buffalo, NY
11/9 Memphis Jewish Community Center, Memphis TN
11/10 ROSMY, Richmond, VA
11/10 Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, special session, DuBowski, Naomi 
Mark, and Rabbi Greenberg in person
11/10 Jewish Film Festival of Lower Fairfield City, Stamford, CT -Rabbi 
Greenberg in person
11/10 Helen Hayes Theater, VCS Community Change Project, Nyack, NY - 
DuBowski in person
11/11 Florida Atlantic Region of Hadassah, Delray Beach, FL
11/13 Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles, CA
11/14 South America Tour - MIX BRASIL - Sao Paulo as well as Rio de 
Janeiro; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Buenos Aires, Argentina with DuBowski, 
Rabbi Greenberg and David
11/16 JCC on the Hudson, Tarrytown, NY
11/18 Hamilton Jewish Film Festival
11/23 3rd Czech Gay Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
11/24 Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Spain
11/24 London Jewish Film Festival.
12/10 Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, Norfolk, VA
12/15 Enzian Theater, Maitland, FL
12/13 Plaza Theater, Atlanta GA - DuBowski, Malka and Leah, Rabbi Greenberg 
in person
12/19 Shimon and Sara Bimbaum JCC, Bridgewater, NJ
1/8 Beth Tsfiloh Congregation, Baltimore, MD - DuBowski, Rabbi Greenberg in 
person
1/12 Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, FL
1/14 Bergen County YJCC, Township of Washington, NJ
1/29 Temple Har Shalom, Warren, NJ

Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Kansas City 
theatrical openings coming this Fall.

Visit www.tremblingbeforeg-d.com for more information