As Seen Through These Eyes

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Actors: Maya Angelou , Simon Wiesenthal

Director: Hilary Helstein

IMDB Rate: 7.8 out of 10 (38 votes)

Plot Summary:Hilary Helstein (DirectorProducerWriter) began her career in the world of humanitarian causes. With her work with Steven Spielbergs Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, she directed and produced over 200 segments and interviewed many prominent Holocaust survivors, military liberators and rescuers among them, Simon Wiesenthal, Nobel Prize recipient Walter Kohn, and renowned Rabbi Graudenz, part of the Sugihara rescue committee. In addition, she traveled to remote areas to interview survivors with unique experiences, including several members of the Varian Fry rescue mission, Chief of Staff of the US Army, and a Mengele twin. Hilarys expertise was utilized to train other interviewers and for quality assurance throughout every English-speaking region in the world. She reviewed an additional 300 testimonies. Hilarys deep passion for the film and the arts led her to her most recent creation of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. As Festival Director, Hilary has facilitated completing two successful years of this citywide event. Prior to that, in 2005, Hilary produced and directed a documentary on world renowned Rabbi Harold Schulweis. In addition to filmmaking, Hilary has worked in another capacity in the cultural arts. In 2004, she curated an exhibition of paintings, Samuel Bak Between Worlds on surrealist, Samuel Bak for the Finegood Gallery. Prior to that, Hilary co-curated the art exhibit, Memory and Meaning the Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Artist, for the Jewish Federations Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. She worked with over 40 artists and personally brought to it the most recognized artists in this genre including Art Spiegelman and Mindy Wiesel. Ms. Helstein was segment producer for the documentary series, America! which aired on the Odyssey Network. In addition, she directed an educational project for the Museum of Tolerance and an oral history project for CalArts. Hilary started her career in LA in film development for actor Tom Hanks.