The Seattle JAC (Jewish Action committee) film Festival entered its second day with a full agenda of seven films including features, documentaries and shorts. Highlight of the day was the new Canadian feature, "Steel Toes" starring David Straithairn as a liberal minded Jewish attorney engaged to defend an unrepentant skinhead Neo-Nazi in the racist "hate murder" of an Indian storekeeper. This is basically a two-man show somewhat similar to Truman Capote's visitation of one of the killer's of "I...

The JAC Jewish Film Festival in Seattle opened its gates for the twelfth consecutive year last night at the massive CINERAMA Theater down town, with a slam-dunk opening gala double-header, (films from USA and Israel), and an aimiable audience chat with actor Judd Hirsh, following the screening of his latest film, "Brother's Shadow" which opened the festival. "Brother's Shadow" is an absolutely new film, still in search of a distributor, by first-time director Todd Yellin, telling the story of a...