JTA — Noam Ash didn’t expect his own life to become the inspiration for his first feature film. But that’s what happened when the then-27-year-old was living with his grandparents in 2018. The screenwriter’s conversations with his manager about another script he was working on kept turning to how he had moved in with his Holocaust survivor grandfather after breaking up with his boyfriend. “My manager was like, ‘I think you should actually write about that,’” Ash recalled in an interview. Nearly a decade later, Ash’s film “Bookends,” which is loosely inspired by his own experience, is the first movie...
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