Boaz Dvir
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Award-winning filmmaker and Penn State University assistant professor Boaz Dvir tells the stories of ordinary people who, under extraordinary circumstances, transform into trailblazers and game-changers. They include an average inner-city schoolteacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator and a national model (Discovering Gloria); a World War II flight engineer who transforms into the leader of a secret operation to prevent a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); and a Holocaust survivor who sets out to kill former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie (Cojot). Dvir teamed up with Retro Report to produce a documentary short, “Send in the Special Ops,” for The New York Times. His most recent release, the child-poverty short, “El País de la Eterna Primavera (Land of the Eternal Spring),” has been an official selection at 15 films festivals around the world and won and was a finalist for several awards, including Best Director in the Green section of the NEZ International Film Festival in West Bengal, India. Dvir’s films have been distributed by PBS, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play and other outlets. Lifetime and Investigation Discovery have incorporated footage from his documentaries into their programs. They have screened in prestigious venues around the world, including Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and numerous US colleges such as the University of Virginia, Syracuse, Penn and NYU. Working with his Penn State colleagues, Pennsylvania’s Department of Education, and organizations such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dvir is leading the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at the university. This innovative program aims to enhance and upgrade the instruction of difficult, vital subjects to children and adolescents. Dvir’s documentaries have received coverage by such media as the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, MSNBC, the New York Post, The Miami Herald, Stars and Stripes, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Florida magazine. His films have won several prestigious awards. For instance, A Wing and a Prayer was named Best Documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Dvir wrote a multimedia journalism ethics syllabus for Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He has taught journalism and documentary filmmaking at the University of Florida. He has written for many publications, including New York’s Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Miami Herald, the Tampa Bay Times, the Las Vegas Sun, the Jerusalem Post, The Satirist, Scripps Howard’s Treasure Coast Newspapers, the Times of Israel and Explore magazine. Dvir served as editor of the Jacksonville Business Journal and managing editor of the South Florida Business Journal, which are part of the Newhouse-owned American City Business Journals. He appeared on “Week in Review” and wrote commentaries for WJCT, Jacksonville’s NPR/PBS station. Dvir created a documentary short about PALS, which helped the nonprofit that aids troubled teens receive an official nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants. Dvir received a Lilly Endowment grant from the Religion News Service to research spiritual aspects of the Holocaust.
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    • Saving Israel

    • The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence
    • By: Boaz Dvir
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2020
    • Language: English
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