Quest for the Lost Tribes | |
Director: | Simcha Jacobovici |
Producer: | Simcha Jacobovici Elliott Halpern |
Music: | Aaron Davis John Lang |
Cinematography: | Mark Mackay |
Editing: | Reid Dennison |
Studio: | Associated Producers |
Distributor: | A+E Networks Alliance Atlantis Communications Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
Quest for the Lost Tribes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Simcha Jacobovici and released in 1998.[1] The film documents their travels to various places in Africa and Asia, to investigate various claims that local populations are the purported Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.[2]
The film premiered at the John Bassett Theatre in Toronto on November 22, 1998.[2] It received various theatrical screenings through 1999,[1] before being broadcast by CBC Television in Canada and A&E in the United States in 2000.[3]
The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000.[4]