The Righteous Conversations Project

Congrats to our entire team for this great honor. Thank you to The MY HERO Project and especially Eva Haller for selecting our film.

A Prayer For My Mother: The Eva Brettler Story is an animated film that chronicles the extraordinary saga of Holocaust survivor Eva Brettler – a child facing brutality and profound loss who finds sustenance in faith and her own dreams for the future. From the loss of her parents to a forced death march across Europe, young Eva survives Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps, the destruction of her family, and the near destruction of European Jewry to emerge, with a tender heart and faith intact, crediting the goodness and decency of helpers and caretakers she encountered along the way.

This film was created by teen filmmaker-animators Ruben Barrett, Raisa Effress, Sophia Evans, Lauren Fuchs, Katie Hadsock-Longarzo, Ian Kim, Eve Levy, Timothy Lim, Asher Meron, Marion Ochoa, Isabella Rahi, Hank Schoen, and Olivia Uzielli, working with artist mentor C. Lily Ericsson. The film’s score was created by Charles Weiner, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, a filmmaker/composer and the grandson of Eva Brettler. Executive produced by Cheri Gaulke and Samara Hutman. A production of The Righteous Conversations Project, in collaboration with Harvard-Westlake School.

Congrats to our Artistic Director Cheri Gaulke.

Congratulations to our director Cheri Gaulke. In honor of her outstanding work and commitment to independent film, the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) has chosen to honor Cheri Gaulke with the 3rd annual Edison Innovation Award - 2023.

“Congratulations! I can’t think of anyone who has done so much for independent film and is a voice for the voiceless. Not only that, your innovative approach to filmmaking and storytelling is unique, engaging and powerful. Bravo!”
–Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, TEFF

ACTING LIKE WOMEN TEAM:
writer-director-producer Cheri Gaulke
writer-producer Anne Gauldin
producers Meg Linton Cheryl Bookout

Posted • I’m so proud to have my film TRUDIE’S GOOSE screening in London tomorrow in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. This animated short was directed by and me, adapted from the short story by Maya Savin Miller, based on the life and art of Holocaust survivor Trudie Strobel, produced by the project. Thank you Women Over Fifty Film Festival!

Posted • Our 2nd WOFFF - film event happening tomorrow in east London is to
mark Holocaust Remembrance Day:
📽️ Where is Anne Frank +
📽️ WOFFF short Trudie's Goose by C. Lily Ericsson, Cheri Gaulke, Samara Hutman and Liran Kapel.

Friday 27 Jan at 7PM , E15 1BX

Tickets are free but you need to register via Eventbrite - HMD 2023: Where is Anne Frank + panel