The Burning Plain The film will have a budget of under $20 million. "The Burning Plain" began filming in New Mexico on November 5, 2007. Other filming took place in Portland and Depoe Bay in Oregon. "The Burning Plain" was screened at TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, in September 2008, before being screened at the Savannah Film Festival, which was held from October 25 to November 1, 2008. It was an entrant of the international competition of the 65th Venice International Film Festival. "The Burning Plain" was released in theaters on September 18, 2009. "The Burning Plain" has received generally poor reviews
Songs of Life Festival by Bulgaria. When trains came to take 49,000 more Bulgarian Jews to the death camps, the Bulgarian people resisted the demands of the German government and refused to allow their Jewish neighbors to be sent to concentration camps in what was the single largest non-deportation of Jews during World War II. The Songs of Life Festival debuted in November 2008 on the 65th anniversary of the rescue in the Bulgarian cities of Sofia and Plovdiv and in Petah Tikva and Jerusalem in Israel. Ernest Bloch’s choral-orchestral piece, "Sacred Service", a Jewish work, was performed. During the inaugural festival, 49,000 flowers