“The Making of a Man,” a film made by Women’s American ORT on the ORT network in Iran, has captured a Red Ribbon prize at the American Film Festival held recently at the New York Hilton Hotel in New York. Already a winner of the National Council on Jewish Audiovisual Materials award for the most outstanding 16mm film of Jewish interest produced in 1969, this film was selected from hundreds of entries to win a Festival award; it has been shown on television in the New York area and across the nation to widespread acclaim. The film documents the history of a Jewish community which had lived in Persia since the time of Cyrus, and records its struggles through centuries of poverty and repression and Its present situation in the enlightened and burgeoning industrial nation of modern Iran. It deals with the squalor and lethargy that have been the lot of this community for two millennia and shows how the lives of youthful members break through the barriers of that past when they go to the ORT school in Teheran.
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