Jan
09
2009
Highlight’s documentary, Killing Kasztner: The story of Israel Kastner, is now showing at the cinemateque in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to rave reviews and full houses. Email info@highlight.co.il for more information.
Oct
13
2008
The Israeli premier for KASZTNER will be at the Haifa Film Festival on October 19. This documentary film directed by Gayln Ross and co-produced by Highlight follows the story of a Hungarian Jew, Israel Kasztner, who negotiated for lives with Adolf Eichman. A trial and verdict that forever stamped him as the man who sold his soul to the devil. Murdered by Israeli assassins who gunned him down in front of his doorstep. Now fifty years later, his daughter’s desperate efforts to restore her father’s place as the greatest Jewish hero of the Holocaust, and to uncover the mystery that still surrounds his death. Email info@highlight.co.il for more info.
Aug
28
2008
The documentary Film ‘Killing Kastner’ produced by Gaylen Ross and co-produced by Highlight Films will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Read more about the film on the festival’s site.
Learn more about Highlight’s films In Production.
May
25
2008
Highlight Films and Director Gaylen Ross are finishing up production on the upcoming documentary film, The Persecution and Assassination of Dr. Israel Kasztner, about a Jew, Kastner, who made a controversial deal with Eichman and the Nazis to save Jews from their death. The film has been written about by Reuters and featured on Ynet. Read the article here.