One of Us (2017 film)

One of Us
Film poster
Directed byHeidi Ewing
Rachel Grady[1]
Produced byHeidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
CinematographyJenni Morello
Alex Takats
Edited byJ. D. Marlow
Enat Sidi
Music byT. Griffin
Production
company
Loki Films
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • October 20, 2017 (2017-10-20)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Yiddish

One of Us is a 2017 documentary feature film that chronicles the lives of three ex-Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn. The film was directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also created the documentary Jesus Camp.[2] One of Us opened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017,[3] and was distributed the following month of October via Netflix, which also financed the film.[4][5]

  1. ^ Jason Guerrasio (21 November 2017). "How a Netflix documentary got inside New York City's intensely insular Hasidic community". Business Insider. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  2. ^ "In the moving Netflix documentary One of Us, 3 ex-Hasidic Jews struggle with secular life". Vox. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  3. ^ "One of Us". www.tiff.net. Archived from the original on 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  4. ^ "Leaving everything behind". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  5. ^ Patrick Shanley (9 November 2017). "How 'One of Us' Filmmakers Gained Access to the Insular Hasidic Jewish Community". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 May 2018.