Vlock Fellow Asaf Galay wins Lavine/Ken Burns Prize 

Congratulations to Asaf Galay, Laurel Fox Vlock Filmmaker-in-Residence and this year’s winner of the prestigious Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film for his new documentary “Cartooning America” about the Fleischer Brothers' pioneering animation studio.

Galay’s films examine the creativity of modern Jewish culture. That includes his upcoming Vlock film “Julia Pirotte: Out of Frame.” The film will tell the story of the photojournalist and activist Julia Pirotte, following her extraordinary life from a Polish shtetl to imprisonment to labor activism in Belgium to the resistance in Vichy France to postwar Poland. The activist’s own photography and her first-person testimony, held at the Fortunoff Archive.

Learn more about “Julia Pirotte: Out of Frame”: https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/film/julia/.

Galay will be honored at a ceremony on September 17 by the The Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns, and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation.