The short screenplay Happy New Year by British screenwriter Dave Herman, who lives in the Netherlands, was one of the two winning screenplays in the annual screenplay competition of The Pears Foundation Short Film Fund in England. The prize is a production budget of 10,000 British pounds. The film is now finished, directed by Simon Dymond and produced by Sophia Ramcharan of Stella Vision Films. On November 3, during the upcoming UK Jewish Film Festival in London, the film will have its premiere alongside the other winning film, The Funeral, after which it will enter the festival circuit. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers.

The film is about 10-year-old Michael Cohen, the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, who thinks it is unfair that he is not given time off from school for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and therefore takes drastic action to make it happen. The film deals with the identity confusion that sometimes results from assimilation, and which can drive children to make strange leaps.

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