CHASING PORTRAITS available to book

Dear Programmers and Bookers,

I'm pleased to offer a new documentary that has enjoyed a number of sold-out screenings in festivals around the world. Chasing Portraits is an indelible look at a woman's attempt to connect, across time, with her great-grandfather, a noted Polish artist killed during the Holocaust. It also brings context to the current controversy over who rightfully owns works of art that were lost, sold under duress, or stolen during wartime.

Please let me know if you're interested. I'm happy to send a screening link.

Marc Mauceri
marcm@firstrunfeatures.com
212-243-0600 x20

Chasing Portraits

A documentary by Elizabeth Rynecki

One man's art.

One woman's unexpected path to healing.

Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek concentration camp. After the Holocaust, Moshe’s wife was only able to recover a small fraction of his work, but unbeknownst to the family, many other pieces survived.

For more than a decade his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth, has searched for the missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spanning three generations, Chasing Portraits is a deeply moving narrative of the richness of one man’s art, the devastation of war, and one woman’s unexpected path to healing.