{"id":2456641,"date":"2020-04-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323462"},"modified":"2020-04-02T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:00:00","slug":"aspen-shortsfest-2020-ed-asner-and-local-filmmaker-educate-kids-about-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-shortsfest-2020-ed-asner-and-local-filmmaker-educate-kids-about-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Shortsfest 2020: Ed Asner and local filmmaker educate kids about the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bennett with actor Ed Asner recording the narrration for “The Tattooed Torah.”<\/strong>
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Aspen-based visual artist Marc Bennett\u2019s debut film will screen at 2020 Aspen Shortsfest.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s animated short adaptation of the children\u2019s book \u201cThe Tattooed Torah\u201d is in the family-friendly Program Nine of the Oscar-qualifying festival, which has gone virtual this year as the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered public spaces including the Wheeler Opera House, where Shortsfest had been scheduled to run March 31 to April 5.<\/p>\n

The film is available for screening now through the Festival Focus streaming platform (see sidebar for details on tickets and access).<\/p>\n

Bennett has been based in the Aspen area since 2007. His \u201cHistory of the Star of David\u201d collage for the Chabad Jewish Center on Main Street has become an international teaching tool for Jewish history<\/a> and led him, unexpectedly, into filmmaking. He found himself directing \u201cThe Tattooed Torah\u201d quite by accident as his educational mission has broadened in recent years.<\/p>\n

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