Director:

Jason Hutt

Orthodox Stance
USA | 83 minutes Genre: Documentary Language: English/Hebrew/Russian/Spanish

Screenings:

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 12th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Tues. Feb. 21st, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Boxing has always been a hopeful way out of poverty, crime and rootlessness.  For Dmitriy Salita, Russian immigrant, it was even more a way into finding purpose in his life and in seeing the connection between his faith in himself and with his faith in God.  As a deeply observant Orthodox Jew, Dmitriy’s fascinating and inspiring story is the coming together of “body and soul.”  Dmitriy truly believes he has found God through boxing.  In the end, the film is also about something more; a young man finding his identity and place in life.

“Turns a conventional sports documentary into an absorbing, universal portrait.” 

- AM New York

“Not since the first ‘Rocky’ movie has the rise of a boxer been so winningly portrayed.”

- Sonnyk USA, 2008

“Critics’ Pick”

- New York Times, New York Magazine

Speaker at Camelview 5, Scottsdale
Jason Hutt, Director
After graduating with honors from Harvard University in 1999, and participating in the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, Jason Hutt worked in Hollywood as an assistant to Academy Award-nominated director/producer Mike Tollin on sports related feature films such as SUMMER CATCH, HARDBALL and READY TO RUMBLE. In 2001, Mr. Hutt returned to non-fiction filmmaking to make BREEZEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, which premiered as the opening night film at the Georgetown Independent Film Festival in August 2002, where it won Best Cinema Verite.

Speaker at Arrowhead 18, Peoria
Harvey Prezant - former boxer, trainer and boxing judge
A former rancher, Harvey boxed competitively as an amateur for four years, then began training amateur and professional boxers while pursuing a career as a bank officer. Harvey and his partner, a former pro fighter, produced nine national amateur champions, one Olympic representative, two state champions, a world ranked boxer, and one two time world champ. Currently, he judges amateur matches and continues to train fighters.

Short Film

Arrowhead 18, Peoria

HAVA NAGILA: What Is It? (USA)

Writer/Director: George Zaverdas
Documentary/Docudrama – 12 minutes, English

Director: Roberta Grossman - Documentary – 10 minutes, English
A work in progress film for a song that has progressed to being played, sung, danced to and loved the world over. A tune, with words that can be sung in any tongue and translates as JOY! Behind any memorable work there has to be a history. Along with Harry Belafonte and others, you can share with the filmmaker in finishing the story. Meantime enJOY!

Orthodox Stance