Marketing the Movies

Aryeh Katz ’08SB Marries Business Expertise With Passion for Film Industry As a multi-platform marketing coordinator at 21st Century Fox (FX Networks) in Los Angeles, Aryeh Katz ’08SB works through multiple channels using an array of assets to promote the studio’s productions. This kind of work covers such things as promos, graphics, voice-overs, teasers and […]

Lights! Camera! And…

Leah Gottfried ’14S Creates Web Series on Modern Orthodox Dating Leah Gottfried ’14S is notable for graduating as the first film major from Stern College for Women. “When I was eight years old,” she said, “I fell in love with acting. From there I started writing my own roles, and then got behind the camera, […]

Now in Video: “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie”

In Fall 2014, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies partnered with Yeshiva College and the YU Museum in hosting  “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie,” an interdisciplinary symposium examining the biblical flood account and how the story has been read, interpreted, reconstructed – and modeled – through Midrash, medieval and modern texts, art, and film, with a particular focus on the 2014 Hollywood film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky.