Next Frame Student Film Festival

This Unfamiliar Place by Eva Ilona Brzeski, Stanford University 16mm, 10 minutes First Prize Documentary

An earthquake devastates a town from the filmmaker’s past, leading her to explore her relationship to catastrophic change. For the first time she asks her father about his life in Poland during World War 2, the great enigma of her family history. A film of disaster and memory. Eva Ilona Brzeski is a native of Northern California and a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is currently in New York where she is in preproduction on a new project.