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Scott Rosenfelt, director, joins us to speak about his first documentary film, "Standing Silent," currently screening at the 31st Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Aug. 8, 4:30 PM, at the Rafael Cinema. Known for his commercially successful works: "Smoke Signals," "Home Alone," "Mystic Pizza," "Teen Wolf" and "Extremities," "Gospel Hill" (producer),  says this film which looks at the incidence of child molestation in the Jewish community by rabbis and the silence that greets these accusations, "changed the way he looks at the world and the work he does."  His subject, Phil Jacobs, publishes a series of articles in The Jewish Voice, and it is these stories that are entre for the director into the story of abuse, neglect, forgiveness, and healing. Rosenfelt goes on to say of the three years spent filming with a small crew, that "Standing Silent"does the work documentaries are supposed to accomplish: "illuminate a relatively un-heard of subject, expose it and give people hope that although they will nev