In a new opinion piece for eJewishPhilanthropy, Reboot Studios Managing Director and Executive Producer Noam Dromi argues that short films are one of the most overlooked yet powerful investments in the future of Jewish culture. While often viewed as stepping stones to larger projects, short-form storytelling provides an essential space for emerging artists to experiment, take creative risks, and bring new perspectives into the cultural conversation. By supporting shorts, funders can help cultivate the next generation of Jewish storytellers, expand the range of voices represented on screen, and build a stronger ecosystem for contemporary Jewish creativity. Read the full piece in eJP.

Reboot Studios was featured in Variety, announcing its 2026 Creator Fund slate and expansion into feature filmmaking, marking a major step in its mission to support bold, contemporary Jewish storytelling. The slate spans narrative and documentary film, theater, audio and video games, led by the original feature Juice Cleanse and a diverse group of creator-driven projects exploring identity, memory, family, history and culture. The announcement highlights Reboot Studios’ growing role as a creative engine for artists bringing nuanced Jewish stories to audiences across platforms and genres. Read the full article.

Screen Daily featured Reboot Studios’ ambitious new slate of films and expanded investment in independent features.
The 2026 Creator Fund slate includes nine bold new projects across film, theater, audio and video games. Stories that are strange, moving, funny, fearless and deeply Jewish in all the ways Jewish storytelling can be. As the production arm of Reboot, Reboot Studios supports artists making work that doesn’t stay in one lane — adventurous, culturally specific, and built for audiences far beyond the expected. Read the full article.

In this personal essay, director Guido Chiesa reflects on the journey of adapting Meir Shalev’s celebrated novel The Loves of Judith into For the Love of a Woman. Exploring the creative challenges of bringing a deeply rooted Israeli story to an international audience, Chiesa shares how the invention of Esther, a contemporary character searching for her own place in the world, became the key to unlocking the film’s central themes of love, truth, memory and identity. What emerged is a story that spans generations and cultures, revealing how the search for one’s origins can illuminate what connects us all. Reboot is the Jewish Outreach and Engagement Partner on For The Love Of A Woman with Panorama Films. The film opens July 10 at Laemmle theaters in Los Angeles. Read more and get tickets.

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. Learn more about the projects and Reboot Studios.