Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen

Academy Award-Nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Raim is known for his documentaries about overlooked artists of Hollywood’s Golden Age, including “The Man on Lincoln’s Nose,” nominated for the 2001 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject. Raim’s 2015 doc “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story” premiered as an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for The Golden Eye (L’Œil d’or, le prix du documentaire – Cannes). In addition to his theatrical films, Daniel has written, produced, and directed 28 original documentaries for the Criterion Collection about cinema masters, including John Cassavetes, Buster Keaton, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Kelly Reichardt. In 2019, Raim directed and produced the TCM feature documentary “Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers.”

Sasha Berman has been handling national publicity for theatrical releases of foreign language, documentary, and independent films for over 20 years. Prior to that time, she was a distributor and an exhibitor of indie films. She also consults on theatrical film distribution for independent films and is the personal publicist for Emmy-winning director Maria Schrader (“Unorthodox”).