On The Map Receives 2 Audience Awards

Documentary film On The Map had a very warm welcome across the US and in the media. It has just received 2 more Audience Awards: from the Boston Jewish Film Festival and from the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival. Following On The Map’s success in theaters in NYC and West LA, they are expanding their theatrical release.

ON THE MAP tells the against-all-odds story of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship, which took place at a time when the Middle East was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, and the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv. Through the of lens of sports, ON THE MAP presents a much broader story of how one team captured the heart of a nation amidst domestic turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold War.

The film recounts how an underdog Israeli basketball team prevailed over a series of European basketball powers, including CSKA Moscow (known in the West as “Red Army”), a team that repeatedly refused to compete against Israeli competitors. Moments after this highly charged and historic win, Israeli-American basketball hero Tal Brody became an indelible part of a young country’s history when he famously said, “Israel is ON THE MAP, not just in sport, but in everything.”

SCREENINGS:
The Bayit Hebrew Institute of Riverdale – December 29, 2016
Mobile (AL) Jewish FIlm Festival – January 08, 2017
Tucson International Jewish Film Festival – January 10, 2017
Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival, NV – Opening Night – January 14, 2017
Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, Virginia Beach, VA – Opening Night – January 14, 2017
Miami Jewish Film Festival – January 16, 2017
Miami Jewish Film Festival – January 17, 2017
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, FL – January 19, 2017
San Diego Jewish Film Festival – Opening Night – February 08, 2017
Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival – Opening Night – February 11, 2017
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival – February 11, 2017
Triad Jewish Film Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina – February 11, 2017
New Orleans JCC – Special NBA All Stars Weekend screening – February 16, 2017
San Antonio Jewish Film Festival – February 18, 2017
Cincinnati Jewish & Israeli Film Festival – Closing Night – February 23, 2017
Louisville Jewish Film Festival, KY – February 24, 2017
Naples Jewish Film Festival – Opening Night – February 25, 2017
Carmel Jewish Film Festival, CA – Opening Night – March 04, 2017