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On behalf of Dave Lindquist, Co-Director of IPFW's Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, I would like to welcome you to tonight's screening of a very special film, a film which American audiences only now are seeing nearly 65 years after the film's initial completion in 1948.  By partnering with Congregation Achduth Vesholom and Cinema Center, we are proud to present the 2009 Sandra Schulberg / Josh Waletzky restoration of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today.  Documenting the first International Military Tribunal of major Nazi war criminals which took place between 1945 until 1946, the film you will see tonight appears on a fully restored 35mm print, and with a completely re-constructed soundtrack using the original audio recorded at the trial.  The 2009 restoration additionally features actor Liev Schreiber as narrator.

Joining us tonight is Sandra Schulberg, Restoration Producer and Co-Creator for the 2009 version.  An Adjunct Professor with Columbia University's Graduate Film Program, she broke new ground in selling foreign rights to help finance some of the most important American independent feature films of the late 1970s, including Robert Young's Alambrista and Rob Nilsson and John Hanson's Northern Lights.  Creating an international financing arm for the PBS series American Playhouse, she eventually held the position of Senior Vice President for a series that helped launch the careers of Laura Linney, Conchata Ferrell, Eric Roberts, John Malkovich, and Ben Stiller, among others.  She has secured financing for some of America's top filmmakers, including Jill Godmilow, Philip Kaufman, and Barbara Kopple.  Since 2003, she has led the effort to preserve and revive films produced by the U.S. government as part of the postwar Marshall Plan.  The founding director of the Independent Feature Project, the largest organization of independent filmmakers in the U.S., and co-founder of the film distributor First Run Features, Sandra is the daughter of Stuart Schulberg, Nuremberg's original director and writer, and an uncredited performer in Wind Across the Everglades, a well-regarded film written and produced by her uncle, Budd Schulberg.

After tonight's screening, Sandra will be available for discussion of the film.  But first, I wanted to welcome her and see if she wanted to say a few words...