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Steven Spielberg Leads $2 Million in Funding to Support Films Telling Diverse Jewish Stories
New foundation Jewish Story Partners will be led by Roberta GrossmanBrian Welk | April 15, 2021 @ 11:00 AM
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A new L.A.-based film foundation called Jewish Story Partners launched Thursday with the goal of expanding the range of stories reflecting Jewish lives, with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw backing the organization.
Jewish Story Partners supports independent films that give fresh, nuanced perspectives to tell a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories and cultures, and the group was also founded with the mission of addressing the glaring gap of funding in Jewish stories. The film foundation hopes to explore untold narratives and re-cast familiar ones, preserve historical memory, surprise with new ideas, challenge established positions, confront difficult realities and breach artistic frontiers.
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Steven Spielberg to Direct Film Based on His Youth; Michelle Williams in Talks to Star as His Mother
Spielberg co-wrote the script with Tony KushnerUmberto Gonzalez | March 9, 2021 @ 2:51 PM Last Updated: March 9, 2021 @ 5:55 PM
Steven Spielberg has found his next directing project as the filmmaker will direct an untitled coming-of-age film loosely based on his childhood growing up in Arizona. Four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams is in talks to star in the project in a major role inspired by the filmmaker’s mother.
Although plot details are being kept under wraps, Spielberg co-wrote the script with frequent collaborator Tony Kushner, who most recently wrote “West Side Story,” along with “Munich,” and “Lincoln.”
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Jonathan Groff, Mary J Blige, Gina Rodriguez to Star in Netflix’s ‘Lost Ollie’ Limited Series
Tim Blake Nelson, Jake Johnson and Kesler Talbot round out the main castReid Nakamura | March 9, 2021 @ 8:00 AM Last Updated: March 9, 2021 @ 8:26 AM
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Netflix has announced the main cast for its upcoming “Lost Ollie” limited series, with “Frozen’s” Jonathan Groff set to voice the titular stuffed rabbit.
Joining Groff in the four-episode series are Mary J. Blige, “Watchmen’s” Tim Blake Nelson, “Jane the Virgin” alum Gina Rodriguez, “Into the Spider-Verse” star Jake Johnson and Kesler Talbot.
Inspired by the book “Ollie’s Odyssey” by William Joyce, the series “tells the story of a lost toy on an epic adventure, searching across the country for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend,” according to Netflix. Groff, Blige and Nelson will lend their voices to CG creations, whil