Washington Jewish Film Festival Opening Night Film & Party - Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

THURSDAY, December 4
Washington Jewish Film Festival Opening Night Film & Party

Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater
WDCJCC
1529 16th St NW (at Q Street)
Washington, DC 20036
7pm - film, followed by party

"HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER BLUEBURGER"
Esther Blueburger (perfectly-cast newcomer Danielle Catanzariti) is not your typical teenager. No, Esther Blueburger has ambitious plans: she wants to defy the meanness, absurdity and isolation of this world. Her quest gets a big push at her bat mitzvah party from cool, hip Sunni (Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider). With Sunni’s help, Esther leaves her old life behind, including her strict private school where being Jewish is definitely not cool. Pretending to be a Swedish exchange student at the less reputable public school that Sunni attends, Esther is no longer the unpopular kid everyone loves to push around. She starts spending less time with her dysfunctional Jewish family–disorganized mother, sentimental father and manic twin brother–and more time hanging out with Sunni’s incredibly hip mother, Mary (Toni Collette, Little Miss Sunshine, Muriel’s Wedding). Soon, cracks begin to show in one of Esther’s worlds. In the end, it’s up to Esther to reconcile the chaos and contradictions in her life, and she does it by breaking out and being her truly original, smart, feisty self (US Premiere).

SPECIAL GUEST Miriam Stein, producer.

CO-SPONSORED BY the Embassy of Australia.

Tickets: $20 (includes party after film)
http://www.wjff.org/film.cfm?film=333&height=400&width=400