Program

Public Programs: Media Projects Production

Period of Performance

11/1/2023 - 10/31/2025

Funding Totals

$600,000.00 (approved)
$600,000.00 (awarded)


American Masters: Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

FAIN: TR-293102-24

WNET (New York, NY 10019-7416)
Michael Kantor (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Production of a ninety-minute documentary film about author, educator, activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (1928-2016).

AMERICAN MASTERS--Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire, a feature length documentary, will explore Elie Wiesel’s life through his own words, through interviews with his immediate family, friends, students and scholars who have studied him and through his work as a writer, teacher and public figure. It will air nationwide as part of this PBS series.