Update VIII: interiors
Gail Rosenblum Gail Rosenblum

Update VIII: interiors

Interiors say so much about the times and the people that live in them. Most interiors were cluttered by today’s standards. Given how many things we could incorporate in this scene, we had to be careful to choose the right ones

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Meet our new team member
Gail Rosenblum Gail Rosenblum

Meet our new team member

We are please to introduce you to our new member: Pondie Taylor who joins us as the Project Manager for the Milkweed Holocaust Educational Project.

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Update VII: The blank faces
Gail Rosenblum Gail Rosenblum

Update VII: The blank faces

We might not end up using ‘blank faces’ in our film. They’re quite disturbing (though consistent with the nature of our subject matter). But we decided to experiment. Here’s why…

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Update I : Art Direction - Scene 3, 9 & 10
Gail Rosenblum Gail Rosenblum

Update I : Art Direction - Scene 3, 9 & 10

We have gone through several rounds of screenplay adaptation and are now creating b&w illustrations for each scene of the script. Learn more through our updates about our creative process.

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Celebrating our rock star teachers!
Gail Rosenblum Gail Rosenblum

Celebrating our rock star teachers!

At left, a heartfelt message bursting from milkweed pods, created by students in Jennifer Haase and Catherine Guilz-Feldman’s 8th-grade students in Queens, N.Y.

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A conversation with Milkweed’s author Jerry Spinelli
Sydney Davis Sydney Davis

A conversation with Milkweed’s author Jerry Spinelli

“I never thought of writing about the Holocaust. I think it was because I didn’t have the credentials. I wasn’t Jewish, I wasn’t there, I didn’t know anybody that was there, and there were already maybe literally a million books that had been written on the Holocaust so, what right had I?”

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Madness
Sydney Davis Sydney Davis

Madness

“The decision to offer vibrant color as the Jews are forced into the Warsaw Ghetto reminds us not of the chaos but of the normalcy around them.”

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Meet Misha
Sydney Davis Sydney Davis

Meet Misha

He’s a boy without a name, surviving in the shadows of a city about to change forever.

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