The Last Survivor
2010, USA; 88m
Directors: Michael Pertnoy & Michael Kleiman
Producers: Samuel Goldberg, Thomas Sweeney & Jeff Scheftel

Hédi Fried was born in a small Transylvanian town. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz where most of her family was killed. After being liberated from Bergen Belsen the following year, she found her way to Sweden, where she lives still, working as a psychologist, educator, and author.

Jacqueline Murekatete was nine years old when she lost her family in the Rwandan genocide. Now, an NYU alum, she is a law student at Cordozo University in New York City and is the founder of Jacqueline's Human Rights Corner, an organization that teaches genocide prevention to students around the world and supports survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

In 1996, Justin Semahoro Kimenyerwa’s village in the Congo was attacked in the middle of the night. Separated from his family, he fled to Burundi, Rwanda and Nairobi before being resettled in St. Louis. He currently works as a translator for refugees at St. Barnes Jewish hospital and speaks to community groups about his experience as a refugee.

Adam Bashar is a survivor of the genocide in Darfur who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Now 21, he serves as a liaison between the city’s education department and more than 300 Darfur student-refugees who live there. He also studies Political Science at IDC Herzliya's International school and is president of Bnai Darfur, a humanitarian organization that works with Sudanese refugees in Israel.

About Righteous Pictures
Righteous Pictures, founded by director Michael Pertnoy, is a production company that creates socially driven documentary films and new media projects as a means to bring about social change. A collective of artists and social activists, they are committed to creative, character-based, global projects as a platform for dialogue on the most critical issues of our time. The Last Survivor is their first feature length documentary and they are currently in production on their second documentary entitled WEB.