Half Hour With: The Performance (Shira Piven)

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Half Hour With: The Performance
Shira Piven (Writer/Director)
Moderated by Pete Hammond, Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic, Deadline
Based on the short story by Arthur Miller, The Performance follows Harold May (Jeremy Piven), a gifted Jewish tap dancer, and his dance troupe who are recruited to perform a one-night engagement in 1930’s Berlin.
Writer/Director Shira Piven discusses:
• Directing her brother, Jeremy, who studied tap dancing for 10 years (take out how it was)
• The challenges of making an indie film and the experience of shooting in Slovakia
• How the film has become even timelier than when she set out to make it