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Saturday, June 14
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

641 D St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Holding Liat

Director

Brandon Kramer

Executive Producers

Elliott Joseph, Janine Frier, Alexandra Shiva, Ted Haddock, Albert Wenger, Gigi Danzinger

Producers

Darren Aronofsky, Lance Kramer, Yoni Brook, Ari Handel, Justin A. Gonçalves

Consulting Producers

Marilyn Ness, Libby Lenkinski

Co-Producer

Hilla Medalia

Editor

Jeff Gilbert

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographers

Yoni Brook, Omer Manor

Additional Cinematography

Music

Jordon Dykstra

Sound

Tristan Baylis

Narration

Contact

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli-American Liat Atzili and her husband Aviv were at home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz. By nightfall, Liat and Aviv are captives in Gaza along with 250 other people—12 of whom, like Liat, are American citizens.

Caught between international diplomacy and a rapidly escalating war, their family must face their own uncertainty and conflicting political perspectives in the pursuit of Liat and Aviv’s release. This agonizing process, and the ultimate fate of their loved ones, challenges how the members of the family understand themselves and their place in the conflict.

Through the intimate lens of a family’s experience, HOLDING LIAT poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicenter of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time.

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Brandon Kramer

Director, Holding Liat

Brandon Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Lance. Brandon directed The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series The Messy Truth (CNN). Brandon is a Film Independent Fellow, a DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow, a regular collaborator with Kartemquin Films in Chicago, and has served as a media teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.

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