Studio Projects

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.

Reboot launched a major expansion into feature filmmaking with its 2026 Creator Fund slate with nine new projects spanning narrative and documentary film, theater, audio and interactive media. Anchored by the studio’s first original feature, the slate showcases a new generation of Jewish storytelling that moves fluidly between genres and platforms, from an intimate documentary about ventriloquism and fatherhood, a satirical horror-comedy feature about a Mizrahi Jewish girl and a mysterious juice cleanse to immersive theater confronting Holocaust memory. The lineup reflects Reboot Studios’ commitment to work that is formally adventurous, culturally specific and built to reach audiences far beyond traditional Jewish spaces.

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.

Father Figures
A personal documentary directed by Emma D. Miller 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.

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.

Juice Cleanse
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. Juice Cleanse is a subversive exploration of diet culture and spiritual commodification. From director Shoshana Ehrenkranz and writer/producer Jonathan Mizrahi.

Keeping Up With The Siegfrieds
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, documentary filmmaker Dani Faith Leonard uncovers how extremist ideology lingered in plain sight, and how communities can finally confront it.

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

Saba
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.

Triple Mitzvah
From Sundance alum Nico Opper, a sex-positive Jewish comedy short 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.

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

Deadclass, Ohio
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
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.

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.

MOTHER/ROAD
A multimedia musical meditation by Avi Amon exploring grief, memory, family and migration through the cassette tapes his parents carried when they immigrated from Istanbul to the United States. Developed with support from Reboot Studios and presented as part of The Shed’s Open Call.

Digital Media & Podcasts

AlefBet Audio
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.

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.

Video Games

Normandie
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.

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 Sucia / 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.