Shot in two period, one of 15 days during December 1999 and a few days of retakes in April 2000, in
Super-8 format and improvised with no script, I Am Josh Polonski's Brother was shot mainly in
Orchard Street in New York City, it includes rare footage of Rivington Street's
First Roumanian-American congregation. The film premiered at the Forum of Young Cinema in the
Berlin Film Festival. The film was then released in France by distributor
MK2 and more than 50,000 people came to see it in theaters even though it was shot in
Super 8mm.
Kodak supported the film to prove that it was possible to create a narrative feature in Super-8 format in the midst of the digital age. Nadjari not only proved it but demonstrated that the digital age, instead of reducing media to its own format, is in fact a great system of expanding the possibilities of most film and video formats. Nadjari's idea is that the digital age is an archiving system that enables any other format to fit, not technically, but more to integrate with the story we want to tell. It is thus possible to use almost any recording device and have it fit to a narrative integration. Here the film was about family and nostalgia for film of the 70's,
Super-8 film was the best format to fuse the format with its content. ==Awards and nominations==