Film Projects
A feature-length documentary film.
Searching for his child's namesake, a father is led to the gripping, historic events of the early days of Hitler's final solution. Rumbula's Echo promises to be a contribution to Holocaust history. Visit the web site for Rumbula's Echo.
Web Projects
www.Rumbula.org is an educational web site and worldwide resource for information about the Holocaust and Jews in Latvia. It has more than 150 pages of text and photos organized by topic, including 400 web links to a thousand additional pages.
120,000 visitors have used Rumbula.org to date. Rumbula.org is linked to by major Holocaust, genealogy and educational organizations in Latvia, Israel and the U.S.A. Visit the educational web site, Rumbula.org.
Radio Projects
Blizzard is a vox populi radio documentary about people's reactions to a major snowstorm produced in audio verité style.
Originally recorded during Chicago's big snow of January 1979. The Blizzard web site features audio excerpts from the documentary. Visit the web site for Blizzard.
Contact Us
Postal Mail
Luminescence Media Group
3740 N. Lake Shore Drive
Suite 15B-3
Chicago, IL 60613 USA
Telephone
1-312-602-3302
Email
Info@LuminescenceMedia.org
News
Press Coverage
Chicago's WLUW-FM broadcast an interview with Rumbula's Echo writer-producer Mitchell Lieber on April 18. The interview with Lieber was conducted by Michael James on the From the Heartland program.
The Latvian Jewish Courier January 2008 issue devotes two pages to the LMG documentary film Rumbula's Echo. The Courier is published by the Jewish Survivors of Latvia.
Chicago's monthly JUF News reported "One Family's Reunion Leads to a Website for All" in its World section, in September 2003. The articles and photos are about LMG's educational web site, www.Rumbula.org, and the Lieber family story that led to its creation.
The Jerusalem Post , on December 19, 2002, reported "It's All Relative: History Uncovered". The article is about LMG's educational web site, www.Rumbula.org, and the story behind it.
Radio
Luminescence Media Group has several radio programs in development. Its current radio project is the documentary, Blizzard.
Blizzard is a vox populi radio documentary capturing regular people's feelings about snow, recorded during Chicago's huge snow storm of 1979. In Blizzard Chicagoans describe the impact of the big snow on daily life and human relations as well as transportation and government - painting a complex portrait of urban humanity in the face of hostile weather. Some people view snow as playful, other view it as a hassle, and still others have unique perspectives that - in one case - involve perhaps too much alcohol.
The lack of response to this snow storm by the city's government is widely credited with bringing about Jane Byrne's upset victory over incumbent mayor Michael Bilandic in the Democratic primary, leading to her historic election as Chicago's first woman mayor. The public reaction that led to this election result, occurring six weeks after the storm, is explicitly captured during the documentary. Public transit passengers, displaced from the non-operational "L" and waiting for the bus, spend several minutes discussing the mayor's role in handling the snowstorm.
Originally broadcast under a different title on WNIB-FM (now WDRV-FM), Blizzard is being re-edited for broadcast today and is receiving a new narration track.
For more information and audio excerpts, visit the web site for Blizzard.
