We knew from our history what it meant to be Jewish, but I didn’t know what it felt like on my body until Hitler rose to power.

~Natalie Mehlman Scharf

TIMELINE

We are nearing the end of post-production with the goal of premiering at a major film festival late spring/summer 2025, accompanied by a robust festival tour, impact strategy, educational campaign, and community outreach that addresses surging antisemitism and xenophobia, elevates women’s voices and explores wartime sexual violence and how democracies are imperiled when government is bought by CEOs.

FUNDING GOALS

Our production has received generous grants from: the National Endowment for the Humanities, Claims Conference, Jewish Story Partners, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, New York Foundation for the Arts, Remembrance and Future Foundation, Spungen Family Foundation, Karma Foundation, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and many private donors. Fox is a 2022 Jewish Film Institute resident, sponsored by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, won Pitch Royale at the Australian International Screen Forum, and was a finalist at Paley Doc Pitch. We are about to launch a new round of fundraising for distribution, community engagement, impact and educational strategy.

 
 

©Marisa Fox ~ My Underground Mother 2025