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gombiner

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Hoboken, New Jersey
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Bio: Minna Zielonka -Packer is a filmmaker and screenwriter, born and bred in New York City. Trained in fine arts and media studies, she received her professional education at Pratt Institute (MFA) in New York, and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA), and Dalhousie University, in Canada. She attended the famous High School of the Performing Arts in NYC, where she studied drama.

Her film credits include the award winning, “The Apology” (dir.Leslie Defrancesca), awarded a jury prize at the New York Women’s Film festival, and “Sabrina” (dir.Sidney Pollack). She is the director and writer of the documentary, “Back To Gombin” (distributed by the National Center for Jewish Film). This one hour documentary has been selected by numerous film festivals including, The Los Angeles Jewish Film Fest. New Jersey Film Fest., Back East Film Fest, and has been broadcast internationally, including multiple broadcasts on Israeli and American television.

Zielonka-Packer was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant to create the film The Lilliput, from her script, to be shot in Poland in Spring 2008. Her film crew is an international mix of talented professionals, headed by award winning cinematographer, Yori Fabian.

IndieGoGo URL: http://www.indiegogo.com/gombiner

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What makes gombiner different?
The difference between this film and others about the Holocaust is significant and lies in the structure of the film. In this parallel narrative, the past links to the present and the future, over generations and in mysterious and unpredictable ways. The setting is Poland today, in the past and in the future. Visible in the scenes from the present in Poland are traces of the Holocaust and Communism which lurk invisibly in their shared histories of the characters. Everyone wishes to move forward with their lives into a brighter future. However, the past can not be so easily erased, and permeates into their current lives. The past affects the futures of the characters as well. The way in which the individual characters reflect upon and incorporate the lessons of the past, and the legacy of the Nazi destruction of the Jewish people, links to other characters across the hands of time. Ultimately, their lives and the future is created from the way in which each of them learn from the wrongs of the past. An unsentimental story that is personal and inspired by one Jewish dwarf who really lived and who hid in a garbage can to escape the Holocaust, ends up being a beautiful film about peace, mutual understanding and the ways in which we must each do our part to heal the world, and insure a better place for future generations.

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Minna, Congrats on getting your project funded! I was hoping you could help me. I am trying to get my new Indiegogo project PHONE SEX GRANDMA open for funding. But I cannot find any screens or resources or tools on my indiegogo screens to open the project up to funding. Can you tell me what I need to do? Thanks! Jack

Jack, Thanks for your comment. Have you spoken to Slava of IndieGoGo.com? I would suggest you do that.

How do you think we can each, individually and collectively, find a way to reconcile past horrors. And do you think this is necessary in order to really move forward.

Great question. The long and short answer is EDUCATION. As to whether the past is reconcilable with the present and future, it is a process of learning and integration, i believe. Clearly, we must take the lessons of the past and learn to make a better future. It's all connected.

jkwriter (Sun Mar 23)

Reply from gombiner (Mon Mar 24)

Jack, Thanks for your comment. Have you spoken to Slava of IndieGoGo.com? I would suggest you do that.

gombiner (Fri Jan 11)

How do you think we can each, individually and collectively, find a way to reconcile past horrors. And do you think this is necessary in order to really move forward.

Reply from gombiner (Mon Feb 04)