Oren Rudavsky Filmography

Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter

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Doc

Crew: Additional Cinematography

Synopsis: Harold L. Humes, known to his friends as "Doc," was a modern-day Renaissance man -- he was a published novelist, invented water-resistant paper houses for use in the Third World, helped launch the literary journal The Paris Review, co-founded the New American Cinema Group, studied at MIT, and Read More

1/23/08
The Treatment

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, Stephanie March

Synopsis: A man and a woman are faced with an unusual "fifth wheel" in their relationship -- his analyst -- in this offbeat independent comedy. Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) is a schoolteacher working at a respected private school for boys. Jake recently parted ways with his longtime girlfriend and isn't Read More

2006
Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Members of a family try to bridge their differences as they address different interpretations of Judaism in this emotionally powerful documentary. Menachem Daum is a devout Jew, as is his wife, Rivka Daum. During World War II, Rivka's father survived the Holocaust thanks to a Polish family who hid Read More

2/6/04
And Baby Makes Two

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This 60-minute documentary is a candid and emotional look at 11 single women who have decided to actively pursue motherhood without the assistance of a spouse or boyfriend. The women are in a support group in New York City and are intelligent, articulate, and financially independent. But they also Read More

1999
A Life Apart: Hasidism In America

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Synopsis: With deeply ingrained moral codes based on traditions that date back to the 18th century, practitioners of Hasidic Judaism stand apart from mainstream modern socieities, making the one of the most misunderstood sects of the Hebrew religion. The sect had its origins in Central Europe and did not Read More

1997
Twitch and Shout

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This award-winning film provides an in-depth look at the often puzzling neurological disorder called Tourette syndrome. Those afflicted with this illness must often contend with uncontrollable physical twitching and verbal outbursts. Aired on PBS as a P.O.V. series episode, the film features a Read More

1995
Un Beso A Esta Tierra

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This Mexican documentary chronicles the experiences of the Jewish refugees who came from Europe to settle in Mexico during the 1920s. Most of the refugees came to escape anti-Semitism and the forced economic hardships they endured in their homelands and had hoped that "America" meant the U.S. But Read More

1995
The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski - His Life and Music

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leopold Kozlowski

Synopsis: Klezmer music is a fusion of gypsy music, Jewish liturgical music, and the typical musical forms of Eastern Europe, including the polka. It is most familiarly performed at Jewish weddings, and had nearly died out by the mid-1990s, when a modest revival of interest began to hold some promise that Read More

1994
Empty Bed

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Wylie

Synopsis: Empty Bed is a 60-minute character study of an ageing homosexual. Bill Frayne (John Wylie) sits alone in his room, contemplating his past, present and future. In flashback, the events of the last 24 hours are assessed, as he sifts through the personal contacts--both gay and straight--made during Read More

1990
Voices From The Attic

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Lest you imagine that the Polish farm family which hid director Debbie Goodstein's Jewish family in their attic during World War Two was motivated by the milk of human kindness, it is well to remember that they took every valuable item the family members possessed as compensation for their Read More

1989
I Married a Vampire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rachel Golden, Brendan Hickey, Ted Zalewski, Deborah Carroll, Temple Aaron

Synopsis: This quaintly romantic low-budget vampire film from notorious Troma Studios involves the plight of a naive country girl (Rachel Gordon) whose first venture into the Big Apple leads to degradation and humiliation at the hands of heartless city slickers. Her destiny changes radically when she falls Read More

1987
Spark Among the Ashes

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this documentary, join 13-year-old Eric Strom as he travels to Cracow, Poland for his Bar Mitzvah -- the first such ceremony held there since the Holocaust. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1986
At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today

Crew: Director, Producer