Planning In Loving Memory

The stars aligned in my favor when my husband and I were looking for a wedding planner and found Eyal Tessler and Leslie Price of In Any Event. We knew right away that Eyal and Leslie were the perfect duo to hatch the wedding of our dreams. They are experts in creating flawless events that reflect your personal style. Working together, they are the ying to your yang when helping you dream up your event along with making all of those wedding planning decisions.

In addition to just gushing about their brilliance, I am thrilled to share a wonderful article in today's Mitzvah Market written by Leslie Price. She has some creative tips for paying tribute to someone special who is deceased at your special event. Enjoy!

We're on the list!

Rewind Pictures is honored to be listed again in the ever illustrious New York Magazine Weddings and Online Directory Vendor Listings for Summer 2010. For those that live here and elsewhere, you can always count on this resource to give you the best of the best advice and vendor recommendations when planning your wedding or special event. We are honored to be in the company of so many other talented event professionals!

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Thinking outside the Bar Mitzvah box

We recently finished a Bar Mitzvah film that was the first of its sort for Rewind Pictures.

For Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, we usually produce films incorporating on-camera interviews with family and friends of the Mitzvah boy or girl or we produce a visual story using home video and photos only. This time around, our client wanted to do something different-a combination of the two, if you will. Instead of interviewing him on camera, we voice recorded a story he had written about son that we set to photos he provided along with the music of his choice. The final product turned out wonderfully-it was really sweet and personal to hear a father reminiscing about his son on the day he becomes a man! Surely something both father and son will cherish for years to come.

Just goes to show you that any type of film is a possibility for us. We enjoy pushing the envelope and constantly search of ways to think outside the box according to your personal story, style and budget.

Preserve your family history!

My family recently experienced the loss of two very special people, Helen & Sol Krawitz.

Life long partners, Helen & Sol were married for over 60 years. They lived through the Holocaust, fought in the Resistance, saved countless Jews, settled in the US and realized the cliched American dream. Sol turned 80 years old five years ago and the family embarked on preserving their family history based on the stories of its matriarch and patriarch, Helen and Sol. The result: a 60 minute documentary featuring interviews with Helen, Sol, their 4 sons and wives and 7 grandchildren intertwined with their precious archival materials and customized music. You can view a clip below.

When Helen passed 10 months ago, Sol's world was crushed. By fate or coincidence, he fell ill soon after and passed on September 29, 2009. What has survived is sweet memories of a wonderful couple, an amazing legacy, a beautiful family....and this film. In the midst of this tragic loss, it has increasingly apparent that it is imperative for us to preserve our family histories. So please, run, don't walk, and record those stories you always say you are going to get around to, pull those old photos out of their boxes and bring your family history to life forever.

Helen and Sol, you are missed greatly.

Dazzle them at your organization's gala!

Rewind Pictures makes films and montages for all sorts of events from weddings to anniversaries, birthdays, Mitzvahs and corporate/non-profit events and galas. Since all of our films are tailor-made, your film wish is our command!

This past year, we were thrilled to produce a tribute film honoring Ethan Hawke for The New Group Annual Gala in New York on November 10, 2008. An active member of this New York theatre company, The New Group's Board of Directors chose to honor Mr. Hawke (Reality Bites, hello!) for his contribution to the community. It was a tremendous honor to interview TNG founder Scott Elliot, members of their Board of Directors, Philip Seymour Hoffman and the delightful Ethan Hawke!

We were honored to attend the Gala and witness the premiere of the film that seemed to be quite a success based on the applause-o-meter and thrilled to help The New Group raise funds for next year's season.