Producer/Screenwriter/Director of Photography: Lisa Lewenz
Historical footage: Ella Arnhold Lewenz
Editors: Penelope Falk, Anand Kamalakar, Lisa Lewenz, Ruth Schell
Music: Paul Bartholomew, Lisa Lewenz, Lewis Spratian, Bob Telson

A Letter Without Words is the amazing result of a collabora-tion across time between a filmmaker and her grandmother. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Ella Lewenz, a member of one of Germany's most prominent Jewish families, used a home movie camera to record scenes of daily life. Defying Goebbel's ban on amateur filmmaking, she created a cinematic diary including images of family gatherings, Nazi spectacles, and such future exiles as Albert Einstein and Brigitte Heim. Nearly fifty years later, Elia's granddaughter, multimedia artist Lisa Lewenz - raised with no knowledge of her Jewish background-was shocked to discover Ella's movies in an attic, and decided to use the footage to investigate her grandmother's life. A Letter Without Words combines both woman's films to create an unprecedented and intimate first-hand examination of Jewish history. - David Schwartz