Ruah Edelstein and Lumen Animae Studios Los Angeles

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"COMING OF AGE"

An Animated Film Based on the Holocaust Survival Story of David Wiener

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A production of L'Tamid (לתמיד) Project: animated films documenting stories of Holocaust survivors. Directed by Ruah Edelstein and Masha Vasilkovsky.
This half-feature-length film is made using the direct sand animation technique. Together with students, the directors interviewed David Wiener, Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland. Then the directors wrote the script based on that interview.
Production: Students of the Advanced Animation class of Masha Vasilkovsky at College of the Canyons chose parts of the story, storyboarded those parts, then began the animation process. Currently, other scenes are being animated by Masha and Ruah at Lumen Animae Studios. We are also at the beginning stages of post-production. The film will be scored by Bernardo Feldman, the composer for our previous two films in L’Tamid series.

Ruah Edelstein artist

Ruah Edelstein is a Lithuanian-American contemporary artist and animation director known for a body of conceptual work including animated films, paintings, and site-specific installations. Ruah works in series, exploring one subject at a time.

In 2012, together with filmmaker Masha Vasilkovsky, Ruah co-founded a Los Angeles-based animation studio, Lumen Animae Studios.

The studio has presented work at Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, the US Open Tennis Championships, National TV of China, and other outlets.
 
Since 2008 Ruah Edelstein has directed and produced over 50 films. Awards include: the SIMA Award in 2020, Emmy Award Nomination in 2019, among others.

Ruah is on the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), teaching animated film production in the Department of Character Animation since 2012. 

Most recently Ruah has been a guest artist and lectured at the Film University of Babelsberg in Berlin, Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea, SIA Educational Consulting Company in Beijing, and UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television in Los Angeles.  