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	June 16, 2011: You can now watch "Two Spirits" in its entirety via Frameline Voices on YouTube. Check it out!
	March 26, 2011: The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center presents a special screening of “Yizkor” at the El Paso Museum of Art tonight. Filmmaker Ruth Fertig will be in attendance for a Q&A session afterwards.
	March 22, 2011: Casa Azul hosted a screening of “Yizkor” followed by a Skype Q&A with director Ruth Fertig tonight in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Fun fact!: the film has now played in five states along the southern border of the U.S.
	February 17, 2011: If you’re going to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, go see Shorts Program #5 tonight at the Wilma 1. “Yizkor” is on the bill along with four other films.
	February 16, 2011: The iShorts film series is screening Oscar shorts tonight in Prague. “Yizkor” is included in the line-up. Full circle for the film, since the first shoot and research trip started in Prague on New Year’s Day, 2008.
	February 1, 2011: “Yizkor” was included in the “Shorts on the Beach” program last week at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, with filmmaker Ruth Fertig in attendance for a Q&A after the screening. View a clip from the Q&A.
	December 27, 2010: “The Cockroach Project” is airing on the Documentary Channel again tomorrow at 4:15pm EST. Please watch!
	November 30, 2010: “Yizkor” is screening this Thursday as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s Super 8 Hanukkah Festival - “eight short films from around the globe that illuminate the miracle - and the mystery - of survival.” Info can be found on the SFJFF website.
	November 14, 2010: “Yizkor” won the Special Mention Award at the Jewish Women’s Film Festival in New York today, after a nice Q&A with the filmmakers. Big thanks to the National Council of Jewish Women!
	November 10, 2010: “Yizkor” screens ahead of the wonderful feature documentary, “A Small Act,” at the Nashville Jewish Film Festival tonight after winning the audience award in the student film competition.
	October 26, 2010: The Jihlava Film Festival in the Czech Republic is screening “Yizkor” today. Read the very strange translation of the film’s description on the festival website.
	October 7, 2010: “Yizkor” will be playing at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival on October 19 and 22. Check out the festival schedule.
	August 20, 2010: “Yizkor” is an Angelus Film Festival award finalist. Winners will be announced today.
	August 4, 2010: Ruth Fertig is on a panel of judges tasked with choosing a winner in the “Gone to Texas” video contest for incoming students at the University of Texas at Austin. Longhorn love.
	July 2, 2010: Just heard that “Yizkor” has won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. You can view a list of all the recipients here.
	June 30, 2010: “Yizkor” screened with other gold medal Student Academy Award-winning films tonight at the National Archives, home of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution!
	June 12, 2010: “Yizkor” won the gold Student Academy Award today in a ceremony at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	May 15, 2010: “Yizkor” has won a Student Academy Award in the documentary category! The level of the award (gold, silver or bronze) will be announced at the awards ceremony on June 12.
	May 6, 2010: “Yizkor” is a Regional Winner and National Finalist of the Student Academy Awards!
	April 15, 2010: “Yizkor” is making its film festival debut in the director’s hometown, at the Cherry Hill Jewish Film Festival in New Jersey.
	March 11, 2010: “The Cockroach Project” is again screening in Portugal, this time at Screenlabs as part of the Nomadic Conference Film Festival in Porto.
	Februrary 12, 2010: “The Cockroach Project” is premiering on the Documentary Channel tonight at 7:40pm. Please watch! More airdates in March.
	January 12, 2010: An LGBT community group in Middlesbrough, England is screening “Two Spirits” this evening, followed by a transatlantic Skype Q&A with the director.
	October 4, 2009: “The Cockroach Project” is making its international debut at the U.Frame Festival in Portugal.
	September 10, 2009: More “Two Spirits” airdates: KQED and KTEH (Bay Area PBS stations) are both airing the film on September 18 at 11pm and September 19 at 5am.
	September 8, 2009: “Two Spirits” is airing on KTEH, the Bay Area’s PBS affiliate, as part of the series “videoi,” on Friday, September 18 at 11pm. More details here.
	September 6, 2009: Free Speech TV’s last television broadcast of “Two Spirits” is today, but you’ll still be able to watch the film online (albeit very low resolution) on their website.
	September 1, 2009: “The Cockroach Project” is screening at Nueva Onda movie night in Austin! September 10, 8pm, 2218 College Ave. Please come!.
	August 4, 2009: “Two Spirits” is airing on Free Speech TV during August and September and streaming on their website for ever and ever. For more info, check out the site here.
	July 13, 2009: The Documentary Channel contract for “The Cockroach Project” has been finalized so it’s only a matter of time before it airs! More details to come.
	May 17, 2009: “Yizkor” had its first public screening at 9pm at the Alamo South Lamar in Austin, along with three other thesis films from the University of Texas.
	May 13, 2009: There was a packed house at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin tonight for the Texas Documentary Tour’s “10 Under 10” screening, which included “The Cockroach Project.” 10 documentaries, each around 10 minutes long and made for about $10. You can see the Austin Chronicle article about the screening, “Getting Creative with Restraints,” here.
	April 6, 2009: “Two Spirits” just had its screening at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, in an “international selection of shorts exploring the idea of home.” What a lovely group of films in which to be included.
	March 29, 2009: Recorded the voiceover for “Yizkor” today. An amazing woman named Lotte Knoller read the words as though they were her own, on the first take.
	March 22, 2009: “The Cockroach Project” had its first public screening today at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, as part of the Saddle Up Documentary Showcase.
	January 14, 2009: “Two Spirits” has been invited to screen at the 23rd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival! This will be its first international screening.
	December 20, 2008: Ruth Fertig is the recipient of the 1st Annual Arch Campbell Award for Creative Vision at the University of Texas at Austin. The entire award will go towards financing the completion of “Yizkor.” See the UT Doc Center’s announcement here.
	November 13, 2008: “Two Spirits” is screening in San Francisco once more, this time at Frameline at the Center.
	September 11, 2008: “Two Spirits” screened at the Out and Equal Workplace Summit in Austin today, in a program focused on culture and identity.
	August 16, 2008: “Two Spirits” screened today at the University Film and Video Association’s annual conference in Colorado Springs. UFVA provided partial funding for the film, so it is a privilege to be sharing it with them today.
	June 20, 2008: In advance of Frameline32, Indie Express has posted interviews with some of the filmmakers who made shorts playing in this year’s festival. Check out Ruth Fertig’s interview about “Two Spirits” here.
	June 15, 2008: Yippie! The talented Jeanne Stern is on board as the animator for “Yizkor.” Check out her website here.
	May 27, 2008: “Two Spirits” has been selected to screen at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. If you’re in the area, come see the film on Sunday, July 13 at 2:30 pm at the Prince’s Black Box Theater. More info here.
	May 15, 2008: “Two Spirits” has been picked up for distribution by Frameline, the nation’s leading distributor of LGBT films! Check out their “Two Spirits” page here.
	May 1, 2008: “Two Spirits” has been selected for inclusion in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, otherwise known as Frameline32. The screening is on June 23 at 7:00 pm in the Roxie Film Theater. Come see it! Here’s the festival’s page about “Two Spirits.”
	March 1, 2008: The University of Texas Documentary Center has launched its site for showcasing student work. You can check out the page for “The Cockroach Project” here.
	December 8, 2007: The tickets are in hand and we’re leaving on New Year’s Eve for Prague to begin filming the Super 8 portion of the new film, “Yizkor.” We’ll also be doing a ton of archival research as we travel to Prague, Brno, Terezin and Jerusalem for two weeks.
	November 25, 2007: The Documentary Channel has expressed interest in acquiring “The Cockroach Project” for its programming lineup! More details to come.
	April 4, 2007: Tom Neff of the Documentary Channel got a chance to view “The Cockroach Project” today when the UT Documentary Center screened the best of University of Texas’s student-made documentaries for the channel’s founder and CEO.