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Maybe some people are just born unlucky? This documentary film weaves together a diverse collection of different voices from London’s Jewish community to explore the concept of “luck” or “mazel”. From lucky charms and curses to global economics and quantum physics, this humorous and philosophical piece of visual poetry navigates the boundaries between religion and superstition to ask how the invisible hand of mazel has touched us all.

Commissed by The Jewish Film Festival & supported by the Pears Foundation

Co-producted with Pilgrim Films in 2009

Director: Christopher Thomas Allen

Producer: Andrew Hinton

The Legacy Now Youth Panel is a dedicated group of young people aged 14-19 from the five Olympic host boroughs who are engaged in the Olympic Legacy planning process. The panel has been convened by Fundamental, an organisation that is leading the field in youth engagement in architecture and the build environment.

For the launch of their manifesto, The Light Surgeons in collaboration with Fundatmental, and the members of the the panel, created a giant animated 3D architectural model based on the Olympic Legacy Masterplan as the center peice for an event at Ocean. The installations content was informed through a series of workshops and the event brought together a range of young people from across the host boroughts to interact and learn about the London Development Agencies plans for the post Olympic site.