Movie - Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Blessed Is the Match is a documentary about the heroic but tragic life of Hannah Senesh who left Palestine as a young woman in 1944 to rescue Jews from Nazi brutality in her native Hungary. Hannah was captured and executed by the Nazis but through her writings, photography and life-story her passion for life and justice lives on. With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archives, Blessed Is the Match is an intimate but harrowing account of the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. www.blessedisthematch.com

Blessed Is the Match – Academy Qualifying Run
Los Angeles Screening info:
Fri-Thurs, Aug. 22-28, 12:00PM and 2:00PM
Laemmle Theaters
Fallbrook 7
6731 Fallbrook Ave.
West Hills CA 91307
Tickets: www.laemmle.com or 818/340-8710

New York Screening info:
Fri-Thurs, Aug. 22-28, 8:05PM and 9:50PM
Village East Cinema
181 – 189 2nd Ave.
New York, NY 10003
tickets: www.villageeastcinema.com <http://www.villageeastcinema.com/> or 212/529-6799