Multi-talented performer-writer Deb Filler stars in this adaptation of her autobiographical off-Broadway solo show about her life as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Through facial expressions, accents, and mannerisms, Filler transforms herself into character after character based on the various members of her far-flung family. She recounts her experiences growing up in white Anglo-Saxon New Zealand and tells of visiting the sites of Nazi death camps with her father, Sol Filler. The film takes its audience from laughter to sadness.... and back again.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Jackie Mason meets Tracy Ullman."
- Montreal Gazette

"Extraordinary work, an extraordinary storyteller... we laugh, we weep."
- The Village Voice

ARTICLES

The Jewish Advocate (pdf)

PURCHASE DVD

HOME USE ONLY $36.00 plus shipping Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional Use) Does not include Public Performance Rights Home Use Policy (pdf)

INSTITUTIONAL USE $72.00 plus shipping Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVD Does not include Public Performance Rights Institutional Use Policy (pdf)

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The National Center For Jewish Film Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454 P: (781) 899 7044, F: (781) 736 2070

Punch Me in the Stomach

New Zealand, 1996, 58 minutes, color
Directed by Francine Zuckerman

Based on the stage play by Alison Summers and Deb Filler

$72 Institutional Use DVD
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$36 Home Use DVD
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Public Exhibition 16mm, Beta Rental also available