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Associated fellow Kevin Ostoyich Celebrates Successful Film Premiere in Cuxhaven

Our associated fellow Kevin Ostoyich is celebrating a major achievement: The documentary film Gary’s Letter, which he helped inspire, recently premiered in Cuxhaven and has already been selected as a semi-finalist at the New York Indie Shorts Awards. Even more exciting, the film has won the L’Eclisse Award at the Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival in Chicago, USA. 🎉

The film tells the moving story of Gary Sternberg, who was born into a Jewish family in Nazi Germany, fled to Shanghai in 1940, and later built a new life in the United States. Decades later, he discovers stumbling stones (Stolpersteine) bearing his parents’ names in front of his childhood home in Cuxhaven. This unexpected discovery leads him to reach out to the house’s current residents, rekindling a connection to the country he left behind so many years ago.

The film originated from a conversation between Kevin Ostoyich and the director, who has spent years exploring her own family’s history. Gary’s Letter is a powerful testament to memory, reconciliation, and the forging of new connections across generations.

Additionally, Kevin Ostoyich has just published a new article about Gary with the Spungen Foundation. You can read it here: Gary Sternberg | Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation.

🎥 Watch the trailer here: vimeo.com/950989014

We warmly congratulate Kevin Ostoyich on this success!