Out of Competition

SHALOM IRELAND



Country of production: USA, Ireland
Year: 2003
Language: English
Mins: 59

Director: Valerie Lapin Ganley
Script: Valerie Lapin Ganley Cinematography: Jaime Kibben
Music: David Kidron, Andy Rubin
Editing: Andre Gersh
Sound: Gretchen Stoeltje
Producer: Valerie Lapin Ganley
Production company: Share Productions
Source: Valerie Lapin Ganley
Share Productions
616 Manor Drive
Pacifica, CA 94044
USA
Phone: +1 650 738 9495
Fax: +1 650 738 9492
vlapin@aol.com
www.shalomireland.com

SHALOM IRELAND is a celebration of Ireland's remarkable, yet little known Jewish community. From gun running for the Irish Republican Army during Ireland's War of Independence to smuggling fellow Jews escaping from the Holocaust into Palestine, the film tells the untold story of how Irish Jews participated in the creation and development of both Ireland and Israel.

SHALOM IRELAND features several prominent Irish Jews including Robert Briscoe, the first Jew elected Lord Mayor of Dublin; Rabbi Isaac Herzog, the renowned Talmudic scholar who not only served as the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland but was also the first Chief Rabbi of Israel; and Rabbi Herzog's son, Chaim Herzog, who became President of Israel. Today, as their population declines and their culture is in jeopardy of becoming extinct, Irish Jews have launched an effort to revitalize Ireland's once vibrant Jewish community.

Lapin Ganley has some twenty years experience working on documentary television programs and series, including for PBS and KQED (San Francisco). She has won two Emmy awards. SHALOM IRELAND was inspired by her discovery that her Lithuanian great-grandparents were the first Jewish couple married in Waterford, Ireland, and is the filmmaker's feature-length directorial debut

filmography as director
SHALOM IRELAND (2003)

Sunday 11-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre
Screening with LANDSDOWNE STREET