Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Celebrates 40 Years of Cinema with Star Power and Global Award Winners LINK

“Riveting…an edge-of-your-seat experience …” ‘She has a hidden identity’: New film uncovers a mother’s second world war secrets. -Jim Farber, The Guardian LINK

“Remarkable” ‘Your mother never told you? New film spotlights sexual violence in Nazi labor camps. -Judy Maltz, Haaretz LINK

“Powerful… telling the hard truths can also be heroic.” She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camps. -Olyvia Haynie, Forward LINK

New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary for termination. The film told the story of Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis. LINK

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet Joseph Cox - 404 Media LINK·

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities -Jennifer Schuessler, NEW YORK TIMES LINK After DOGE Deposition Videos Go Viral, Judge Orders Them Taken Down -Benjamin Weiser and Jennifer Schuessler, NEW YORK TIMES LINK

I’m one of the filmmakers DODE targeted at the NEH. Here’s why we’re in trouble. (Guest Column.) - Marisa Fox, Hollywood Reporter HOLLYWOOD REPORTER LINK

How Musk’s young ‘Doge’ recruits used AI to dismantle humanities grants -Tim Adams, Editor, New Review, THE OBSERVER LINK "It's a gender-based story that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group," Fox said. Any future grants, it was suggested by Doge, would be strictly "awarded to pro-America causes.”

“An odyssey” Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed grants as DEI, then canceled them -Andrew Lapin, TIMES OF ISRAEL LINK Journalist thought her Israeli freedom- fighter mother hid something big. She was right. -ReneeGhert-Zand, Times of Israel LINK

Also canceled by DOGE: a project on “the untold story of Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust,” according to the suit. Documentary filmmaker Marisa Fox, whose own grant for a project matching that description was canceled, bemoaned the Trump administration’s new priorities in the Hollywood Reporter last year. “I’ve seen firsthand how meeting a Holocaust survivor, whether in person or through a project, can dispel the most deep-seated antisemitic beliefs,” Fox — no apparent relation to the DOGE staffer — wrote then. “But if the NEH, NEA and local humanities councils are defunded, the platforms that can bridge divides will be severely limited. And so, too, will our chances of stemming hate’s rising tide.”

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before canceling them LINK

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants ‘DEI’ before canceling them LINK

Discovery Released in Lawsuit by Humanities Groups Reveals ChatGPT-Powered Process by DOGE in Cancelling Grants for Schools, Libraries, and Community Organizations -PR NEWSWIRE LINK

“Revelatory” MY UNDERGOUND MOTHER Uncovers a hidden holocaust history. - Rae Alexandra, KQED LINK

MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Marisa Fox Interview -Andrea Chase, BEHIND THE SCENES/PRX.org LINK

Counting the cost of cuts to the arts and filmmaking communities podcasts.apple.com LINK

Will funding cuts spell the end for history documentaries? washingtonpost.com LINK

“A REAL WORK OF ART” – Diane Joy Schmidt, Editor, New Mexico Jewish Journal LINK

My Underground Mother Woman’s search for meaning comes to Crandell Theatre in Chatham, N.Y., on October 19. -Sarah Wright LINK

“A revelation” -Alexis Corbin, Executive Director, KHFM LINK

Marisa Fox unearthed an incredible survival story — her mothers. The World Premiere of MY UNDERGROUND MOTHER Brooke Berman, writer, director LINK

“Incredible film, amazing story” Richard Eeds, SANTA FE LINK