Aviva Kempner — Director (5)
The Spy Behind Home Plate (2019) [Movie] Douban
The Spy Behind Home Plate
director: Aviva Kempner
other title: 本垒板背后的间谍
Telling the story of Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jewish catcher during baseball's Golden Age who joined the Office of qigou.cc Strategic Services (OSS) to spy for the U.S. on the Nazis' atomic bomb program.
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2001) [Movie] Douban
director: Aviva Kempner actor: Hank Greenberg / Alan M. Dershowitz
Following the career of Jewish baseball star Hank Greenberg from his beginnings in the Bronx to his success in the Texas minor leagues to his signing to the Detroit Tigers in the 1930s, this documentary recounts the inspirational tale of an American hero. Including nearly 50 interviews with Greenberg himself, his family, other players, celebrities, fans, and public figures, the film uses older film clips and excerpts from Hollywood movies popular in Greenberg's day, accompanied by a spirited soundtrack of songs from the 20s and 30s.
Rosenwald (2015) [Movie] Douban
director: Aviva Kempner actor: Peter Ascoli / Julian Bond
Rosenwald, by Aviva Kempner, is a documentary about how Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who rose to head Sears, partnered with Booker T. Washington to build 5,400 Southern schools in African American communities in the early 1900s during the Jim Crow era. Rosenwald also built YMCAs and housing for African Americans to address the pressing needs of the Great Migration. The Rosenwald Fund supported great artists like Marian Anderson, Woody Guthrie, Langston Hughes, Gordon Parks, and Jacob Lawrence. Among those interviewed are civil rights leaders Julian Bond, Ben Jealous and Congressman John Lewis, columnists Eugene Robinson and Clarence Page, Cokie Roberts, Rabbi David Saperstein, Rosenwald school alumni writer Maya Angelou and director George C. Wolfe and Rosenwald relatives.