Love, Family and Being Jewish Enough: Inside Kid Sister

Noam Dromi, Managing Director of Reboot Studios, sat down with filmmaker and actor Matthew Shear to discuss his new film Fantasy Life, a deeply personal story where Jewish identity isn’t a premise, but a lived cultural environment shaping how characters think, joke and relate to one another. In this conversation, Shear reflects on the origins of the film, the role of intergenerational memory and the subtle, often uncomfortable ways we navigate identity, assimilation and inheritance. Rather than positioning itself as an “issue film,” Fantasy Life offers something more intimate and textured, rooted in character, humor and emotional honesty. Watch the video conversation or read the written Q&A to learn through our conversation with Shear about the making of the film, the ideas behind it, and the cultural questions it raises. Fantasy Life is now streaming on all platforms!

Reboot’s Tanya Schevitz spoke with writer and star Jill Kargman about Influenced, a sharp, warm-hearted satire of Upper East Side influencer culture now in theaters. The conversation explores how the film moves beyond status, performance and online visibility into deeper questions of responsibility, generosity and what it means to truly see other people. Watch the video interview or read the written Q&A to learn more through our conversation with Kargman.

What makes a story Jewish? Is it the characters, the subject, the person telling it, or something harder to define: a sensibility, a joke, a question, a detail that feels unmistakably familiar? The film, The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo, now available to rent on Prime Video and Apple TV, is a vibrant coming-of-age story about first love, teenage obsession and identity in 1980s New York that offers an unexpected way into that conversation. Jewishness isn’t always at the center of the frame, but when it surfaces, it reveals something about how culture and identity find their way into the stories we tell. Reboot’s Tanya Schevitz sat down with director and writer Mike Walker, writer Susan Gomes and star Anna Mirodin to talk about the film and the many ways a story can be Jewish without announcing itself as one. Read the interview or watch the Q&A.