CHILDREN OF BEQAA

2018  |  NR  |  77 min
Documentary

Cast | Elias Matar, Lyla Matar

Synopsis | Children of Beqaa documents director Elias Matar and his daughter Lyla, traveling to the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon in June of 2016 to work with Salam LADC, a local NGO. Here in the Beqaa, there are over 800,000 Syrian refugees who have been living in a state of limbo for the past 5 years. These refugees are left in the dark; they have no country, nearly no rights, very little education and not enough food. Children of Beqaa gives a voice to the refugees, who just want their stories to be heard.

A WING AND A PRAYER

2017  |  TV-G  |  62 min
Documentary

Cast | William Baldwin, Al Schwimmer, Lou Lenart, Harold Livingston, Bill Novick, Gideon Lichtman, Phil Marmelstein, Pro. David Harman, Ralph Lowenstein, Sam Lewis, Shelly Eichel, Eddie Styrak, Fayna Sall

Synopsis | Narrated by William Baldwin, the untold true story of WWII aviators who carried out a secret, illegal operation in 1948 to prevent a second Holocaust. Lead by former flight engineer Al Schwimmer, who eluded the FBI, discover firsthand accounts of how they risked their lives and citizenships by creating factitious airlines, their strategic heart-pounding actions and daring escapes from smuggling Nazi surplus weapons into the Jewish state.