Reboot Studios provides funding, creative development, and strategic support for original work in film, television, podcasts, music, theater, digital media, publishing, and live performance.

Since 2022, we’ve supported more than 40 projects that reflect the breadth of Jewish experience; funny, serious, provocative, poetic, and everything in between.

Our investment approach spans development funding, finishing funds, fiscal sponsorship, and community-based creative cohorts. Projects range from award-winning films to digital media to festival-ready scripts and educational series.

Below is a selection of supported projects to date, organized by medium.

Film/TV

The Anne Frank Gift Shop
A dark comedy short by Mickey Rapkin about a marketing agency rebranding the Anne Frank House for Gen Z. Oscar-shortlisted. Streaming on ChaiFlicks.

Just the Tip
A bold, comedic short by Jessie Kahnweiler exploring male circumcision, cultural inheritance, and bodily autonomy through the lens of a mixed-faith relationship. Acquired by the Documentary Channel.

Mashhad
A suspenseful short film from Sarah Solemani set in 1940s Iran, based on the hidden Jewish community of Mashhad. Premiering at HollyShorts 2025.

We’ve Been Here Before
A short documentary by Jacob Kornbluth and Eric Ward about punk rock’s resistance to white nationalism and its lessons for today.

We Should Eat
A sharp short film about generational Jewish tension and neurosis by Shaina Feinberg, starring Alysia Reiner and Tovah Feldshuh. Premiered at SFJFF 2024.

Live Performance

Just For Us
An Emmy and Tony Award winning one-man comedy special by Alex Edelman about infiltrating a meeting of white nationalists. Co-produced by Reboot Studios. Now streaming on HBO Max.

REXODUS
A one-man show by Marval Rex chronicling his spiritual and gender journey from Catholic schoolgirl to Jewish trans man.

Digital Media & Podcasts

AlefBet Audio
A podcast series by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie exploring essential concepts for a post-patriarchal Judaism. Premiering in 2026.

Monty Pickle
Monty Pickle is a whimsical puppet ambassador for Jewish joy — blending humor, heart, and heritage to inspire curiosity and connection in young audiences. Through his adventures, Monty celebrates the light, laughter, and meaning at the core of Jewish life. Reboot is a fiscal sponsor for the digital series.

Closening
A podcast hosted by Jessie Kahnweiler that brings listeners into deeply personal and unexpected conversations with grandparents and elders, exploring meaning, memory, humor, and connection during isolation.

In Quarantine with Steve Bodow
A podcast hosted by Emmy‑winning producer Steve Bodow featuring insightful 10‑minute conversations with creative thinkers, artists, and writers during the pandemic lockdown, exploring how they navigate isolation, creativity, and connection.

The Jewish Bizarre
A podcast hosted by Eddy Portnoy, Tony Michels, and Jessica Chaffin that uncovers the strangest true stories from Jewish history, including murders, riots, beauty queens, and more, told with sharp humor and scholarly insight.

Kasher vs Kasher
A podcast hosted by brothers Moshe Kasher (comedian) and Rabbi David Kasher who explore how to live Judaism during the pandemic, blending sibling banter with deep reflections on quarantine, ritual, and Jewish tradition. 

The Kibitz
A podcast hosted by Dan Crane and comedian Jessica Chaffin that offers hilarious, insightful explorations of Jewish culture, from activism and spirituality to death and comedy, with guests like David Wain, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Moshe Kasher, and David Baddiel.

Kitchen Radio
A podcast hosted by Regine and Nathalie Basha exploring Jewish foodways and cultural memory across the MENA region.

Publishing & Books

The Garlic Eaters
A whimsical children’s book by Madison Safer, published by Ayin Press, about a garlic-loving, Yiddish-speaking family who must leave their cozy garlic-bulb home in search of a new place to belong. Blending folkloric charm with themes of exile, resilience, and cultural pride, the story gently introduces young readers to questions of identity, migration, and community. Coming Spring 2026.

The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of WWII
A nonfiction book by journalist Daniela Gerson, published by Hachette, that uncovers the little-known story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust as refugees in Soviet Gulags including Gerson’s and her wife’s grandparents. Blending memoir, history, and reporting, the book traces a shared legacy of exile, resilience, and unexpected love across generations and continents. Coming March 2026.

Ritual, Culture & Multiplatform

The Borscht Belt Pop-Up Museum & Arts Festival
A multimedia project by Andrew Jacobs celebrating the legacy of the Catskills through immersive pop-up exhibits and community storytelling.

Erev Yalda
A short film and digital toolkit from Rachel Sumekh and Tannaz Sassooni reimagining the Persian Jewish solstice holiday for a new generation.

A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Album
An instrumental album from Reboot Records featuring eight blues-inspired solo guitar tracks by Jeremiah Lockwood (one for each night of Chanukah) blending music, ritual, and reflection.

Hot Chain
A live salon and roundtable series from Mireille Silcoff hosted at the Museum of Jewish Montreal. Expanding soon via DIY kits.

In Development

Reboot Studios supports a growing slate of bold, boundary-pushing projects currently in development across film, television, and digital media. These works are in various stages of writing, research, packaging, and pre-production, and reflect our commitment to amplifying diverse voices and reimagining Jewish storytelling for new audiences.

Breaking Eight
A Hanukkah heist film by Daniel Robbins about a group of estranged Jewish cousins who try to reclaim a sacred family artifact from their cunning grandmother before it’s sold off forever.

Following Fania
A documentary by Lisa Kenner Grissom tracing the life and legacy of 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and Jewish resistance fighter Fania Brantsovsky. Shot on location in Vilnius with an all-female crew, the film explores Fania’s escape from the ghetto, her role as a partisan, and her decades educating others as a guardian of Jewish memory.

How To Rule The World (working title)
A theatrical documentary from Tim Samuels exploring the origins and modern resurgence of antisemitism through a provocative mix of investigative journalism and dark humor.

Sangre Sucio / Tainted Blood
A Ladino-language Civil War western by Jeremy Xido about a Crypto-Jewish father and son crossing the U.S.–Mexico borderlands in search of redemption, legacy, and reconciliation.

Shanda
A historical crime drama by Jillian Lauren set in 1919 Buenos Aires, centered on a young Jewish woman swept into the city’s criminal underworld of trafficking, corruption, and survival.

Tribe
A scripted TV series from Noam Dromi and Lia Langworthy inspired by true events, about an HBCU in Jim Crow-era Baltimore that sponsors a Jewish professor facing deportation to Nazi Germany.

Whatever It Takes
A narrative feature based on the true story of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School’s 2017 cross country team, which defied religious restrictions and physical obstacles to pursue the school’s first-ever state championship.