Holocaust in Film Series: Life is Beautiful

About the Event

The AHEC invites you to join us for the second screening of our 13th annual Holocaust in Film Series: Rescue, Escape and Liberation presented by the Perlman Donor Advised Fund. On March 3rd at 6:00 PM at Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema, we will screen the award-winning classic film “Life is Beautiful.” This film explores how Jewish parents during the Holocaust struggled to shield their children from Nazi brutality and how all Jewish individuals found ways to mentally and emotionally escape the brutality and deprivations they experienced in concentration camps, labor camps, and ghettos. Following the screening, Michele Forman—a second-generation Survivor, award-winning documentarian, and UAB media studies professor—will lead a discussion about the film to deepen audience understanding of the various ways people escaped or found freedom during the Holocaust.

Tickets are $10 per person. Purchase your tickets today!

Presented by:

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Alabama Holocaust Education Center

Location

Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema
1821 2nd Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203

Program Date and Time:

March 3, 2026
March 3, 2026
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Local Time:
Mar 04 2026 |
1:00 am - 4:00 am
Event Time Shown in Central Time.

Event Location:

Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema
1821 2nd Ave N
Birmingham, AL 35203

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About the Speakers

Michele Forman

Michele is a documentary filmmaker who got her start as an executive in feature films. As Director of Development at Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, she was responsible for the acquisition and development of new projects, including New Jersey Drive, Girl 6, Sula, The Jackie Robinson Story, and Summer of Sam. In addition, Forman served as associate producer on Mr. Lee’s Academy Award-nominated film 4 Little Girls, a feature-length documentary for HBO about the bombing of the Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Michele co-founded the UAB Media Studies Program in 2003 with the aim of using new media technologies to connect students with crucial community issues in the Greater Birmingham area. She loves teaching media and film history, as well as using the methods of documentary filmmaking, digital storytelling, oral history, and multimedia-based research to give students the chance to connect what they learn in the classroom with real-world experience.

Thank You to Our Partners

The Perlman Donor Advised Fund