The NSW Film and Television Office is holding a retrospective screening of Yoram Gross Films on Thursday May 3, 2007, from 6:30 -- 7:30 pm at the Cinema Paris in Sydney. The event will be followed by a reception party.
At 80, Yoram Gross' 60-year creator has produced more 120 hours of animation, including the BLINKY BILL television series and nine DOT films. His shows have been seen in more than 80 countries. Yoram Gross Films employed approximately 100 people and was run by Yoram and his wife Sandra up until they sold their remaining stake in the company in 2006. Gross still works on the children's series, ART ALIVE.
Gross built his career telling Australian stories, despite growing up in Poland. Gross' family were among the names on Oskar Schindler's famed list, which saved them from the Nazi concentration camps. During the war, the family moved from hiding place to hiding place 72 times. Yoram's father was killed in Russia and their mother saved the family from Auschwitz and Ravensbruck by using falsified papers stating they were Catholic.
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