THE BOY IN THE WOODS

I had the pleasure of joining the team behind the film THE BOY IN THE WOODS this year with editor Robert Swartz, CCE.

THE BOY IN THE WOODS

The Boy in the Woods is a Holocaust survival story told through the eyes of Max, a young Jewish artist hiding and being hunted in the mythical, haunting forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Based on the best-selling memoir by Canadian Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust.

Robert Swartz, CCE

Robert is an award winning editor and was an absolute pleasure to work alongside. Robert was the recipient of the Best Editing Award at the 2023 Whistler Film Festival.

Director Biography

Rebecca Snow

Born in London England, Rebecca caught the film bug while working as researcher and script supervisor on a BBC drama series about ancient Rome. Since then, she has worked in both Los Angeles and Toronto with broadcast writing/directing credits that include NBC’s Emmy-nominated documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? CBC’s Nature of Things, and History Channel’s Hunting Nazi Treasure, Museum Secrets, Perfect Storms, and Hitler’s Last Stand. In 2018 she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in her documentary Real Vikings: Viking Women. Her feature length documentary Pandora’s Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation had its world premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2020 and won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Special Jury Award at Whistler Film Festival. Her first narrative feature, ‘The Boy In The Woods’ is based on the memoir of a Canadian Holocaust survivor who appeared in Rebecca’s 2019 feature-length documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust. The documentary made world news and was nominated for 6 Canadian Screen Awards.