Pigeon (film)

[5] Pigeon is based on the true story of Susi Penzias, aunt of Nobel Prize winning Arno Allan Penzias[6] (who fled Munich, Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939) and great aunt of Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzias.

[7] The film stars Academy Award nominee Michael Lerner and Canadian actors Wendy Crewson and Joseph Marrese.

In Ken Dancyger and Pat Cooper’s book Writing the Short Film, Pigeon is employed as a model for educating students about the Holocaust.

[9] The film has been used by many educational institutions[10] teaching young people about the Holocaust, as an example of resistance against the Nazis during World War II.

He also directed Salt of the Earth, a 70-minute documentary on the Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang Tour, which became one of the best-selling music DVDs of all time.