Polish-born actor and director Adi Spektor has won the Best LGBTQ Film award, for his second directed film, A Miracle of Hanukkah, which was created on an iPhone 6 mobile device, at the 15th Annual Miami Film Festival last week.
“Human beings are wonderfully complex and “type casting” in life, will prevent us from fully getting to know and understand each other,” explains Adi Spektor. “By combining the world of Jewish religion, LGBTQ and BDSM in A Miracle of Hanukkah, I was taking a risk. However, I am very happy, how well this controversial film has been accepted into the world.”
Produced by Blue Phantom Productions, and filmed at a famed BDSM Dungeon in Los Angeles, A Miracle of Hanukkah is written by C Jay Cox (Sweet Home Alabama and New in Town) and Adi Spektor stars Greg Ivan Smith (Scary Larry), Jay Lindsay (Hysteria) and Adi Spektor (Scandal), and follows a man who arrives home early from a business trip to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah with his loved one, all to find a twisted supernatural surprise awaiting for him. It premiered in April 2016 at the LGBT Film Festival in Warsaw, Poland, where it was enthusiastically accepted by the audience, and went on to be screened in five additional cities around Poland. The movie has since been screened in the US, Romania and Mexico.
Originally published November 22, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
