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.
Spielberg s Seder Spot
Although the Spielberg family moved away in the mid-1960s, for a number of years the family (Spielberg s parents along with their children and grandchildren) came back to town to celebrate Passover at the Arizona Biltmore, which offers upscale kosher accommodations and programming for the holiday.
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