Jascha Heifetz

Gold Violin: Bow of Death -- Trailer for 'Classical Music Video'/Documentary about Joseph Gold, a San Francisco based international virtuoso violinist who studied under Jascha Heifetz and Piatigorsky at USC. Official Selection 2011 Mill Valley Film Festival and 2011 Mendocino Film Festival, 2012 Sacramento International Film Festival, April 24, 7:30 PM, Official Selection 2012 Riverside International Film Festival, Saturday, April 28, 5PM. Grand Prize 2011 3C Media Solutions Film Festival Has also won awards for Best Art Direction/Production Design, Animation, Short film, and documentary. Longer version, estimated length 56 minutes, in production...estimated release Spring 2013.

God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz -- Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. The first modern violin virtuoso, about whom Itzhak Perlman says in the film, When I spoke with him, I thought, I can t believe it. I m talking with God . A musical wunderkind, he went on to set the standard in violin playing for nearly a century. This film portrays an artist for whom only perfection would do, so well known in popular culture that his name became shorthand for excellence for everyone from Jack Benny, to The Muppets, to Woody Allen. Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius: the paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts- gifts he must honor, but which extract a life long price. Is the man and the artist the same person? What is the price each pays? And who was the man behind the music?