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Director Gaylen Ross Presents KILLING KASZTNER

Sunday, March 21, 5:50 PM

GAYLEN ROSS has produced, directed and written award-winning documentary films that have received national and international broadcast and exhibition. Her documentary film on New York's world of diamond dealers, DEALERS AMONG DEALERS is considered the only inside look at the incredibly cloistered world of New York's famous diamond row, 47th Street. It was broadcast as part of the prestigious POV series on PBS, and televised as a two-part serialization for Channel 4 in the UK. It was selected for the Berlin Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Haifa Film Festival (Israel), Cinema du Reel at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Nyon Documentary Festival, (Switzerland), Encontros Inernacionais (Portugal) the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York. DEALERS was awarded a Gold Plaque from the Chicago Film Festival, and named "Best of Fest" in the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Gaylen Ross produced and wrote the Emmy award winning BLOOD MONEY: SWITZERLAND'S NAZI GOLD a feature-length documentary that broke the story of the Swiss Banks and the Holocaust accounts. The film had its theatrical premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, and was a two-hour special for A&E Networks,

Her documentary for British television Channel 4 on gambling in the United States, NOT JUST LAS VEGAS was honored by the Houston International Film Festival, the Chicago film festival; for PBS and The Learning Channel, OUT OF SOLIDARITY, the story of three families from the outlawed Polish Solidarity movement; A&E Network, SELLING THE DREAM a far-reaching examination of stock and securities fraud; and TO RUSSIA FOR LOVE, on the Russian mail-order bride business. She directed the documentary LISTEN TO HER HEART: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LAURIE BEECHMAN, the story of the acclaimed Broadway star of Cats and Phantom of the Opera and cabaret singer, narrated by Rosie O'Donnell, and is completing a film on Yale Drama actress Caris Corfman who lost her short term memory, working title CARIS PEACE.

Her latest film KILLING KASTZNER: THE JEW WHO DEALT WITH THE NAZIS won the Boston Jewish Film Festival's Audience Choice Award.