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POWER IN Entertainment/ Filmmaking: Steven Spielberg
Director, Producer, Founder of Dreamworks Skg, and Chairman of Shoah Visual History Foundation
By: Aliya Lahijani & Mimi Makabi

Among the list of the many awards Spielberg has received, he is not only recognized as one of the most powerful filmmakers of all-time, but also he is known for his philanthropic and cultural projects. He is a huge supporter of modern Jewish life; he sits as chairman for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, an ambitious project devoted to filming interviews with Holocaust survivors. Spielberg explained, “I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.”

Steven Spielberg has earned the right to be known as the number one Hollywood director. Not because he has dominated the film industry for over 30 years—but because you cannot find a better example of MAINSTREAM CINEMA that tackles such strong social themes, often shocking, touching or just plain entertainment shot to such a high standard and quality. No one else has put together a more popular body of work and has created an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster film-making like he has. As he puts it best, “I dream for a living.”




“When I grow up, I still want to be a director.”
By: Steven Spielberg

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