Reboot Studios Expands into Feature Filmmaking with Ambitious 2026 Slate

Co-producer of Broadway’s Just for Us (HBO) and producer of Oscar-shortlisted The Anne Frank Gift Shop launches its first narrative and documentary features as part of a cross-platform 2026 Creator Fund slate

Reboot Studios, the production arm of the nonprofit Reboot co-founded by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, is expanding its feature filmmaking ambitions with the 2026 Creator Fund slate: nine new projects spanning narrative and documentary film, theater, audio and interactive media. Anchored by the studio’s first original feature film, a satirical horror-comedy feature about a Mizrahi Jewish girl and a mysterious juice cleanse and an animated short that premiered at Tribeca about a boy and his grandfather living in a world where gravity is reversed, the slate reflects a new generation of Jewish storytelling moving across genres and platforms. Together, the projects underscore Reboot Studios’ commitment to work that is formally adventurous, culturally specific and built to reach audiences far beyond traditional Jewish spaces.

Now in its third year, the Reboot Studios Creator Fund has become a launchpad for projects that travel well beyond the Jewish arts ecosystem; moving from development to Broadway, major festivals and global platforms. The fund supports creators at pivotal stages of their careers with financing, production infrastructure and strategic partnerships designed to turn bold ideas into audience-facing work across film, theater, audio and emerging media.

Recent successes have underscored the viability of the model. The Broadway run of Just for Us, co-produced by Reboot Studios and now streaming on HBO, reached mainstream audiences with a distinctly Jewish story, while the short film The Anne Frank Gift Shop earned an Oscar shortlist and international festival acclaim. These projects, alongside titles acquired by The Documentary Channel and ChaiFlicks, have demonstrated that culturally specific storytelling can compete at the highest levels of the marketplace.

The 2026 slate marks the studio’s most significant step yet. By moving into full-length narrative and documentary features, Reboot Studios is responding to creator demand and to a media landscape hungry for original voices. The expansion reflects a growing pipeline of artists ready to scale their work and a belief that Jewish stories, when told with ambition and craft, belong squarely in the mainstream conversation.

This year’s cohort includes a diverse slate of filmmakers, theater artists, podcasters and performers whose work spans genres, mediums and generations.

The 2026 Creator Fund Slate:

• • Juice Cleanse — Narrative Feature Film
    Juice Cleanse is a horror-comedy feature film. The story follows a Mizrahi Jewish girl named Eve recovering from an eating disorder. She returns to her dwindling Jewish community and finds that a mysterious, kosher diet drink is growing in popularity. As the drink’s influence spreads, she must confront her own struggles before it consumes her and the community. This story is told through a uniquely Jewish lens and spotlights an underrepresented Jewish community: Mizrahi Jews. Juice Cleanse is a subversive exploration of diet culture and spiritual commodification. From director Shoshana Ehrenkranz and writer/producer Jonathan Mizrahi.

  • Father Figures — Documentary Feature Film
    A personal documentary about a daughter reconnecting with her emotionally distant father, who now spends his days in retirement having intimate discussions with ventriloquist dummies. Blending puppetry, archival materials, and candid family conversations, the film explores Jewish masculinity, performance, and the strange routes toward forgiveness. Directed by Emma D. Miller, one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

  • Keeping Up With The Siegfrieds — Documentary Feature Film
    A gripping exploration into the buried legacy of America’s largest Nazi movement and the towns that allowed it to persist for decades. Through historical discoveries and a present-day investigation across the United States, filmmaker Dani Faith Leonard uncovers how extremist ideology lingered in plain sight, and how communities can finally confront it.

  • Saba — Animated Short
    DreamWorks veteran Liron Topaz directs a lyrical film about a boy and his grandfather living in a surreal world where gravity is reversed. Inspired by Topaz’s own family, the story becomes a universal meditation on loss, inheritance, and the wish for five more minutes with those we love.

  • Normandie — Documentary Video Game
    Created by Sam Butin, Normandie follows a salvage crew diving the wrecks of transatlantic liners in the aftermath of World War II. Inspired by his ancestor’s flight from Europe and built from archival materials, the game uncovers the fragmented traces of Jewish refugee stories left behind at sea. Developed in collaboration with educators and cultural institutions, Normandie transforms Holocaust memory into an active, participatory experience through immersive gameplay and character-driven storytelling.

  • Triple Mitzvah — Narrative Short Film
    From Sundance alum Nico Opper, a sex-positive Jewish comedy featuring Alysa Reiner (Orange is the New Black, The Diplomat) in which a married lesbian couple invites an escort into their Rosh Hashanah weekend with chaotic, heartfelt results. Raunchy and tender in equal measure, the film is conceived as a calling card for a future feature.

  • Deadclass, Ohio — Experimental Theater
    An “intriguingly strange, fragmented elegy” exploring intergenerational memory and inherited trauma in a Jewish graveyard in suburban Ohio (NYT). Loosely inspired by Tadeusz Kantor’s masterpiece The Dead Class and assembled from original text, recycled memories, family secrets, old photos, live violin score, and verbatim fragments of rediscovered memoirs and voicemails, Deadclass, Ohio is a seance for the living and a love song for the dead. From the interdisciplinary company The Goat Exchange.

  • The Goldsmith — Solo Play
    In The Goldsmith, Broadway’s Sharone Sayegh (The Band’s Visit, Come From Away, Beetlejuice, Mamma Mia!), weaves her true love story as a first generation American through the stories of the golden jewelry passed down through her family, from Iraq to Israel to America. As she wrestles with identity, belonging, multiplicity of self and acceptance, this solo play moves, surprises and inspires the audience to investigate the stories and legacies with which we adorn ourselves throughout our lives across borders, cultures and generations. The Goldsmith is envisioned for the stage and future screen adaptation.

  • AlefBet – Season 1 — Podcast Series
    Alef Bet  explores the big ideas, core concepts, tough questions, essential values and evolving practices of Jewish life through the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Hosted by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Alef Bet  reimagines ancestral Jewish wisdom for right now. Drawing on the Torah, Talmud, mysticism, poetry, philosophy and modern voices, the series offers both timeless teachings and contemporary reinterpretation—no prior knowledge or Hebrew needed.

“This is the moment we stop treating Jewish stories like a niche and start treating them like world-class storytelling,” said Noam Dromi, managing director and executive producer of Reboot Studios. “Moving into features is part of a bigger shift; thinking across platforms, audiences, and forms with the same ambition any major studio would. These projects are funny, unsettling, tender, strange, and uniquely Jewish, and they deserve every canvas: screens, stages, headphones and immersive worlds.”

Beyond the 2026 slate, Reboot Studios continues to support storytelling across publishing and emerging media. This year includes the release of The Garlic Eaters by Madison Safer, published through Reboot’s creative partnership with Ayin Press, and The Wanderers by journalist Daniela Gerson, forthcoming from Hachette, which received early research support from Reboot Studios. The studio is also expanding into short-form storytelling, with new initiatives in development that will bring Reboot-backed voices to the platforms where the next generation of audiences are already gathering.

To learn more about the projects, visit www.rebooting.com/studios

The next round of Creator Fund Applications is now open. Learn more here. 

About Reboot Studios:
Reboot Studios is the content and creative production arm of Reboot, a renowned Jewish arts and culture nonprofit co-founded by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation. Reboot Studios projects have premiered at top festivals like Tribeca, SeriesFest, and HollyShorts, and been acquired by major platforms including HBO Max, The Documentary Channel, and ChaiFlicks. Our collaborators include Emmy, Tony and Oscar-winning talent, and our work has reached more than 34 million people globally. www.rebooting.com/studios