SJFF In the News

SJFF on CBS 13 News Sacramento @ 5pm 3/4/24

Insight Interview

Listen to an interview with Willie Recht, Jessican Braverman Birch, and SJFF Director Teven Laxer on CapRadio’s program “Insight” on March 3, 2022.

Article about the SJFF from Binghamton University

Read the article about the SJFF and the two Binghamton alumni, Teven Laxer and Margi Park-Landau.

Read by clicking here.

SJFF 2021 In the News

J Weekly article

Inside Sacramento Article

Reviews of About a Teacher:

Some excerpts from reviews

“Few [movies about inner city schoolteachers] have approached the subject with the impressive realism and naturalism as Hanan Harchol’s semi-autobiographical feature directorial debut…”  – Frank Sheck, Hollywood Reporter

“the rare ‘inspired by’ movie that actually inspires…remarkable…aligned to the docudrama stylings of Mike Leigh…”  – Michael Rechtshaffen, LA Times

“A new film written and directed by a teacher comes closer to capturing the feel of classroom life than most of its big-budget predecessors…It turns out that it takes a teacher to make a decent movie about a teacher.” – Robert Pondiscio Harvard Kennedy School’s EducationNext

Full reviews: