On December 7, the London Indie Short Festival recognized UNLV’s Shoah Survivors Project, a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts Religious Studies program and the College of Fine Arts Dance Department, with its November 2022 Best Documentary Short award. The Project’s film, a conversation with Las Vegas-based Holocaust survivors Stephen Nasser, Sabina Wagschal Callwood, Alexander Kuechel and Henry Kronberg, depicts the stories of its four subjects, which are told in present-day interviews, almost entirely through choreographed dance. “They are the stories of the worst in life,” says director of the Religious Studies program Roberta Sabbath, who notes that their stories also touch upon “years of happiness; fulfilling, exciting lives filled with love.” The award-winning, 27-minute film can be seen in its entirety at shorturl.at/firQ9.

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