U.S.-Israeli Actress & Director Aleeza Chanowitz Says Stockholm Film Festival Withdrew Invite Over Israel-Hamas Conflict
deadline.comU.S-Israeli director and actress Aleeza Chanowitz has abandoned plans to attend the Stockholm Film Festival with her TV show Chanshi following a series of email exchanges in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict in which the event attempted to rescind an invite it made earlier this fall.
Recounting the episode to Deadline, a visibly hurt Chanowitz said she had been planning to travel to Stockholm for the Chanshi screening this Thursday (November 16) and that in the days immediately after the Hamas terror attacks of October 7 the invite still appeared to be open.
Chanowitz stars as a young Jewish Orthodox woman from Brooklyn who escapes an impending arranged marriage and moves to Israel in search of sexual adventure only to discover that her vision of the country is wrong.
Henry Winkler plays the protagonist’s father. Produced by Tel Aviv-based Kastina Communications, the show first aired on Israeli network Hot at the end of 2022 and then played in Sundance’s Indie Episodic sidebar in January of this year.
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