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Beverly Cohn: The Road to Hollywood\u00a0<\/b>\u2013<\/b><\/h2>\n
\"Menashe
A stirring film by Joshua Z. Weinstein shot in the insulated Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joshua Z. Weinstein is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer for over a decade with 20 shorts and features under his belt including, \u201cElaine Stritch: Shoot One Engine.\u201d\u00a0\u201cMenashe\u201d is his first narrative fiction feature and is loosely based on the real life experience of Menashe Lustig, a devout member of the Hasidic community, and the lead character in this poignant film. The story begins with the death of his wife Lea and his valiant struggle to maintain custody of his son Rieven.<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the community\u2019s strict laws, a child must be raised by both parents, so the elders have ruled that his son must be turned over to Menashe\u2019s married brother-in-law. Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates sweet moments of father-son bonding as well as giving him a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent.<\/em><\/p>\n

What makes this film particularly compelling is not only the fascinating story line, but the fact that, lifting the veil of secrecy, it was shot in the non-secular community in Brooklyn\u2019s Borough Park, so that we get a peek into this private Orthodox world. Weinstein\u2019s gift as both a director and a cinematographer accounts for the stunning performances from his cast of non-actors, and the highly textured look of the film.\u00a0 One of the only movies performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, what unfolds is a deeply moving portrait of family, love, connection, and community. This is a movie for all denominations as it is a life-affirming story about the universal struggles inherent in the human condition and the challenges placed upon us when we are not in control of our own destiny.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Menashe
(Foreground) Widower Menashe played by Menashe Lustig receives word from his rabbi that he is losing custody of his son because in their belief system children must be raised by two parents. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Weinstein recently sat down with your reporter for an exclusive interview and the following has been edited for content and continuity for print purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n

What attracted you to tell a story about that private world?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0As a documentary filmmaker, I\u2019ve been just about to every borough and neighborhood in New York<\/a> doing camera work.\u00a0 New York is really interesting because behind every street there\u2019s a story that hasn\u2019t been told before.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been fascinated by Hasidic Jews and there has never really been a film made that shows authentically what that life is like.\u00a0 Anytime Hollywood has tried, it\u2019s laughable in its \u201cauthenticity.\u201d\u00a0People are speaking English, the hair is wrong, the way they observe is wrong.\u00a0They just throw in a Yiddish word every ten words that are already part of the English language.\u00a0 It just felt like this community deserved more than that and somehow I was lucky enough to maybe have the tools to tell the story.<\/p>\n

\"Menashe
Menashe is allowed to spend one week with his son Rieven played by Ruben Niborski before having to give him up for adoption by his brother-in-law. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How close is the script to Menashe\u2019s real story?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 Menashe is really a widower and does not have custody of his son.\u00a0 Everything else is fictional.\u00a0 We did use his actual apartment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(He laughs.)<\/em>\u00a0I took a lot of photos and replicated it for the film.\u00a0 He inspired a lot of the script, but at the same time, there was never a memorial meal.\u00a0 There was never a special week.\u00a0There never was a brother-in-law. It was truncated.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not a documentary.\u00a0 It\u2019s a film that depicts something that hopefully we can relate to and understand.<\/p>\n

How did being a documentary filmmaker inform moving into the narrative?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 For me, cinema is not about plot \u2013 it\u2019s about those moments that transcend us and make us want to understand a community.\u00a0 I was always more interested in 10,000 Orthodox people coming to dance and sing around a bonfire to celebrate the Jewish holiday of\u00a0Lad-BaOmer\u00a0or I was interested in what it\u2019s like for a man to spiritually wash himself in the mikgvah,* or how a portrait of a rabbi can keep mice away from your house.\u00a0 These are the moments that I wanted to make in the movie because I learned from them and hope that the viewers will learn from them too.<\/p>\n

Did you change your appearance in any way so that you didn\u2019t stand out?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 I already had a beard.\u00a0 I just wore a yarmulke sometimes and a white shirt.\u00a0 But, people knew right away that I wasn\u2019t part of the community when I couldn\u2019t speak the language and didn\u2019t know a lot about Judaism.\u00a0 But I did everything possible to try to fit in and get people to open up and be involved in the movie.<\/p>\n

\"Menashe
Trying to find a wife, Menashe meets a woman recommended by the local matchmaker. Courtesy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You were introduced to Menashe through Lipa Schmeltzer known as The Hasidic Lady Gaga.\u201d\u00a0 Do tell me about that.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 Danny Finkelman is one of the producers of the film.\u00a0 He\u2019s\u00a0Lubovitch,\u00a0which is part of the Chabad movement.\u00a0 He directs and produces Lipa Schmeltzer music videos. They\u2019re like these late 1990s MTV pop videos with bright lights, big costumes, but no women dancers.\u00a0 It\u2019s just men dancing and singing.\u00a0 It was eye opening for me.\u00a0 I had never seen real Hasidic Jews in any videos before, so I spoke to Danny and he helped me get access.\u00a0 He wanted Lipa to star in the movie and that\u2019s how I met Menashe who is Lipa\u2019s brother-in-law.\u00a0 They were doing this commercial for a health-care provider. I was blown away by Menashe, this Charlie Chaplinesque sad clown and just knew that he could hold the movie together.<\/p>\n

\"Menashe
Menashe (Menashe Lustig) lights a memorial candle for his deceased wife. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Was there anything that you felt uncomfortable witnessing in the community?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 I call what I\u2019m doing emotional ethnography.\u00a0 You try not to be judgmental of what you don\u2019t understand and try to understand it from their perspective.\u00a0 So this film is a humanization of the community and it\u2019s an honest portrayal.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a whitewashing.\u00a0 We see many things that happen in this community that as outsiders we can\u2019t condone.\u00a0 But at the same time I think it\u2019s worth trying to understand what is foreign to us.\u00a0 This film is about trying to understand this community.<\/p>\n

Were you concerned that this film would be of no interest to the non-Jewish community and would not generate good box office?\u00a0 Also, what are some of the films that influenced you as a filmmaker?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0\u00a0(Laughs)<\/em>\u00a0No one makes a Yiddish film with non-actors because they\u2019re trying to make money.\u00a0 This is not a Jewish movie \u2013 it\u2019s a movie about Jews.\u00a0 My references for this movie are some of the greatest movies in cinema history such as,\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Bicycle Thieves,\u201d \u201cThe Apu Trilogy,\u201d and \u201cA Woman Under the Influence.\u201d I was just synthesizing everything I love in cinema and tried to put it in my own voice.<\/p>\n

What kind of reaction of you getting?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 The secular world immediately embraced the film, way before the Jewish world did.<\/p>\n

Did Jews help finance the film?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 I thought it was going to be easy to raise money.\u00a0 It was almost impossible, as Jews did not want to fund this movie. \u00a0I understand that many affluent Jewish people do not like the Hasidic community for a variety of reasons and choose to fund Israel, Israel Defense Fund, or any Jewish related organizations in which they believe.<\/p>\n

During the rehearsal process, you rehearsed in English, but filmed in Yiddish, which has a variety of dialects.\u00a0 Was that a challenge?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Everyone spoke different dialects.\u00a0 We had incredible translators on set who helped us get through this.\u00a0 They understood my voice and also understood the actors.\u00a0 They tried to make sure that my voice was as close to what the actors\u2019 voices were.\u00a0 Whenever there was a disagreement, it became Talmudic** and people would argue and argue and argue.\u00a0 We could waste a half hour about a single word.<\/p>\n

It definitely created a host of time-sucking difficulties.<\/p>\n

Some of these non-actors had never seen a film.\u00a0 How did they react to the camera?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 It was hysterical.\u00a0 They would give me advice on where to put the camera.\u00a0(Laughs)<\/em> Some people would tell me my lighting was bad.\u00a0(Laughs)<\/em> You know that joke about \u201cHow many Jews does it take to change a light bulb?\u201d\u00a0 It was kind of like that.\u00a0 But what I loved about the people in this film was that there was this na\u00efvet\u00e9, which, because they had never acted before, they weren\u2019t shameful of the camera.\u00a0 They could just do things that many non-actors or even actors would never do.\u00a0 It was about being ready to capture those moments.\u00a0 Professional actors could repeat the same lines over and over again and they could find their marks, but these actors couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 You had to be prepared for their slip-ups or their mistakes with some of their mistakes being the best part of the movie.<\/p>\n

How did you set up the scenes?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0It wasn\u2019t all that different.\u00a0You just had to be slower.\u00a0Maybe I would be more direct with them. I would give them more directions \u2013 like stand here, look to the right, don\u2019t emote. (Laughs<\/em>) Sometimes you had to be very specific about what you wanted and then pray.<\/p>\n

Did you get any obstacles from the elders or the rabbis?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 Of course we did.\u00a0\u00a0 Originally, one of the characters was suppose to be a father-in-law, but two weeks before filming, the \u201cactor\u201d got cold feet.\u00a0 I suspect he was pressured to drop out.\u00a0 Then we had a different brother-in-law \u201cactor,\u201d who we loved, but someone also pressured him and he decided that he couldn\u2019t be in the movie.\u00a0 Menashe had many people tell him that he shouldn\u2019t be in this movie.\u00a0 Danny also had people call him to say that he should not be involved because it would be a blight on the community.\u00a0 We would also lose locations. Other days, we\u2019d be shooting on the street and would have crowds watching the shoot.\u00a0 Kids, adults, women, and old people \u2013 they would laugh.\u00a0 They would see Menashe walking down the street and would be so happy to see his acting.\u00a0 As many people who were against it, there were just as many people who were for it.\u00a0 But, it was definitely a split and was definitely difficult.\u00a0 Many people who were happy to talk to us and happy to watch us would never be in the camera because they believe the camera can only create negativity in their lives.<\/p>\n

What was the funniest moment?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0\u00a0(Laughs)<\/em>\u00a0We were shooting one scene after Menashe gets drunk.\u00a0 He\u2019s on the street with his son who he\u2019s trying to get him not to be angry with him.\u00a0 It\u2019s nighttime.\u00a0 We have lights and all the cameras outside and we\u2019re filming this scene where Menashe is pouring his heart out to this son.\u00a0 Out of the blue, this man walks up to him in the middle of the scene with a box.\u00a0 He says:\u00a0 \u201cMenashe, I have this box.\u00a0 Are you going back to Munsie tomorrow?\u00a0 Do you think you can bring it?\u00a0\u00a0(Laughter)<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you keep aspects of your work hidden from the community?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 We didn\u2019t want the community to know what was going on completely because a lot of them didn\u2019t want this film to happen.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t write about it on Facebook or Twitter and we didn\u2019t do a lot of press.\u00a0 We wanted to keep it as quiet as possible until it was done.<\/p>\n

\"\"
L-R: Menashe Lustig with Joshua Z. Weinstein, writer\/director\/cinematographer of \u201cMenashe.\u201d Courtesy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What did you hope to accomplish with this film?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 The response has been huge.\u00a0 It sounds a bit crass to say that.\u00a0 But I believe the film reaffirms that humanity is the same everywhere \u2013whether you live in Borough Park or a slum in Durbin, South Africa, humanity is not that different.\u00a0 It reaffirms my belief that cinema can bring us closer as humans.<\/p>\n

This is a special film and I wish you the best of luck with it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshua:\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

\n

*A bath in which certain Jewish ritual purifications are performed.<\/p>\n

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