Atlantic Jewish Film Festival – “Carvalho’s Journey”

English, Documentary, with special guest, Adrian Fish

Director / Producer / Writer: Steve Rivo    Narrator: Michael Stuhlbarg
Distributor: The National Center for Jewish Film
Country: USA    Year: 2015     Running Time: 85 minutes
A real-life 19th century American western adventure story about Solomon Nunes Carvalho, an observant Sephardic Jew born in 1815 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1853, traveling with John Fremont’s 5th Westward Expedition, Carvalho became one of the first photographers to document the sweeping vistas and treacherous terrain of the far American West. Living alongside mountain men, Native Americans, and Mormons, Carvalho overcame enormous odds to produce beautiful art: daguerreotypes that became the lens through which the world experienced the West.

In partnership with Photopolis: The Halifax Festival of Photography