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(From
left to right) Ergo partner and Executive Producer Elie Landau,
Writer and co-director Joe Fab, Vin Diesel, "Entertainment
Tonight" co-host Maria Menounos and Executive Producer
Jeffrey Tahler of Miramax at a benefit screening of "Paper
Clips" for Take Action Hollywood in December 2003. |
PAPER
CLIPS
Whitwell, Tennessee might seem like an unlikely spot for a Holocaust memorial. There are few, if any, Jews in the rural two-stoplight town on the edge of Appalachia, which lies just a few miles down the road from both the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial. But that inauspicious heritage didn't stop the students and administrators of Whitwell Middle School from mounting an ambitious tribute to the victims of Nazi genocide. They set out to collect 6 million paper clips -- one for each Jew killed in the Holocaust. This poignant documentary chronicles the school's efforts, which succeeded so spectacularly that the project soon expanded to include a unique memorial -- and made sleepy Whitwell a center of national attention. Ergo is proud and honored to have served as Executive Producers for this important movie, a 2005 Christopher Award winner and a 2006 Emmy Nominee for Best Documentary. In addition, the film garnered awards from the Palm Springs International Film Festival, FilmFest DC, World Cinema Naples Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, and the Washington and Detroit Jewish Film Festivals, and was a featured selection at the Tribeca, Sarasota, Nashville, Santa Fe and Seattle Film Festivals. Following its release throughout the US and an extended run on the HBO family of networks, Paper Clips is now available on DVD from Hart Sharp Video.
(from
l to r) Ergo partner and Executive Producer Elie Landau, Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee), Jack Valenti, President
of the Motion Picture Association of America, Robert M. Johnson,
Executive Producer and President of The Johnson Group, and
Miramax SVP for Corporate Communications and Government Relations
and Executive Producer Matthew Hiltzik at a special MPAA screening
in June 2004. |
(from
l to r) Ergo partners and Executive Producers Elie Landau
and Yeeshai Gross with Linda Hooper, principal of Whitwell
Middle School, and Miramax SVP for Corporate Communications
and Government Relations and Executive Producer Matthew Hiltzik
at a special MPAA screening in June 2004. |
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