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David Michaels, 16-Time Sports Emmy Winner
Joins JLTV Maccabiah Games TeamJLTV is proud to announce that acclaimed sports producer and director David Michaels has joined the network's team which is bringing one of the world's largest sporting events, the Maccabiah Games, to the US and Canada. David has a long list of broadcast accomplishments including Senior Producer for NBC Olympics from 1992 to the present. He is also Executive Producer of Universal Sports Network and producer and director of the recently aired television acclaimed special "2008 Paralympics-Where Dreams Are Born From Adversity." Having won 16 sports Emmys, 7 Eclipse Awards, and the DGA Sports Director of the Year, "his production expertise will drive our historic broadcasts to accomplish the highest standards of professional sports. JLTV is proud to have David involved in our July 2009 two week broadcast of the Games from Israel," commented Phil Blazer, JLTV President/CEO. "The human interest dynamics of the Maccabiah Games gives us the unique opportunity to describe authentic and inspiring stories about athletes from Jewish communities around the world," declared David Michaels.
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JLTV Interviews Delegate Representatives
From 60 Countries at
Maccabiah Headquarters in Israel
Next week, February 7-10, JLTV will interview delegates to this summer's Maccabiah Games at the pre-event Plenum, the advance conference of the 2009 Games. Nearly 60 representatives from around the world will attend the conference. On camera these distinguished representatives will describe Jewish life in their respective countries for the JLTV broadcast of the Games in July 2009. These international delegates will highlight for JLTV's audience what to expect from their athletes, the sports they will compete in, and their unique personal stories. One of the countries in the spotlight is Poland, concentrating on Poland's 1,000 years of Jewish intellectual and industrial development and the rebirth of Jewish life in Poland today. Over 50 historical retrospectives have already been produced in preparation for the Games and are currently being broadcast on JLTV coined as "America's Chosen Network." JLTV is projected to reach more than 30 million homes for the Maccabiah Games. For example, the worldwide network can be viewed on Channel 120 in New York and New Jersey on basic cable.
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JLTV To Produce Documentary,
Numbers: The Mark of the Holocaust
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PHIL BLAZER: "When JLTV's sister
company, Six Point Films' partner Branko Lustig won the first of his
two Academy Awards for producing Best Picture of the Year, Schindler's
List, he made a most unusual statement. Receiving the award, along with
Steven Spielberg, Branko accepted his statuette with this opening
response: 'My number is A3317.' He was referring to the tattoo on his
arm, a number branded there by the Nazis when he was imprisoned in a
World War II concentration camp as a 10-year-old child. My friend
Jeffrey Margolis, director of this particular Academy Award broadcast,
emotionally reminisced about Branko's declaration. 'Branko brought us
over the time limit with his
acceptance speech,' Jeffrey said, 'but how could I have shorten his
comments after that opening statement.' Jeffrey and the world where
stunned by Branko's announcement. In his memory as a young boy,
Branko's
number became his name. I personally never forgot that moment and that
speech. I believe that the over one billion viewers were also
profoundly impacted by this dramatic revelation. This moment in time
has inspired me to produce, with Canadian producer Igal Hecht, the
documentary short, Numbers: The Mark of the Holocaust. This film will
describe the symbolism of the tattoos to the survivors who wear them.
It will also explore the psyche of those who branded them, and what
these numbers and tattoos mean as part of the Holocaust and its
history. This important and dramatic documentary, Numbers: The Mark of
the Holocaust,
will focus on the emotional impact on the millions of people forced to
undergo this horrific barbarity and those of us who view them."
Scheduled release is November 2009.
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Be there in Person!
2009 Maccabiah Games
Join JLTV in Israel as a VIP this July. Special pricing and packages are available for a limited time only.
Call (877) JLTV-NOW
or email us at
info@jltv.tv
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Through educational
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