Quest for the Lost Tribes

Quest for the Lost Tribes
Directed bySimcha Jacobovici
Written bySimcha Jacobovici
Produced bySimcha Jacobovici
Elliott Halpern
CinematographyMark Mackay
Edited byReid Dennison
Music byAaron Davis
John Lang
Production
company
Associated Producers
Distributed byA+E Networks
Alliance Atlantis Communications
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Release date
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Quest for the Lost Tribes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Simcha Jacobovici and released in 1998.[1] The film documents their travels to various places in Africa and Asia, to investigate various claims that local populations are the purported Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.[2]

The film premiered at the John Bassett Theatre in Toronto on November 22, 1998.[2] It received various theatrical screenings through 1999,[1] before being broadcast by CBC Television in Canada and A&E in the United States in 2000.[3]

The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Leslie Scrivener, "'Coincidences' cited in quest for lost tribes; Lost tribes in India, China, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan visited in filmmaker's quest". Toronto Star, May 30, 1999.
  2. ^ a b Lila Sarick, "Descendants alive today, filmmaker says: Among Western adventurers, the search for the lost tribes of Israel has long rivalled quest for the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 1998.
  3. ^ "Documentaries examine Holy Land". Toronto Star, April 4, 2000.
  4. ^ "Genie Award nominations". Toronto Star, December 8, 1999.


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