
Meir Fenigstein: One Man’s Show
How Meir Fenigstein Brings Israeli Stories to the American Screen

How Meir Fenigstein Brings Israeli Stories to the American Screen

Nineteen visiting Israeli filmmakers and talent took to the stage in recognition of their films, which will be screened throughout the festival.


The film portrays the horrors of that day through the perspectives of several fictional characters as they face the terror and chaos of the first 12 hours of the attack.

She stars in Josh Safdie’s film “Marty Supreme” as Rachel Mizler, a married Jewish woman who has an affair with her childhood friend Marty.

Throughout the film, filmmaker Nim Shapira shows not only why the posters went up, but why people justified tearing them down.

“Marty Supreme” has an authentic feel that combines action, comedy and a character study.


Inspired by real-life Jewish table-tennis legend Marty Reisman, the film traces Marty’s upbringing in the Lower East Side and the intertwined forces of his family identity and fierce ambition that drove him.





