Jewish Story Partners’ Latest Round Of Grantees Pushes Total Films Helped Past 100
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit film-funding organization Jewish Story Partners has unveiled its latest list of grantees, saying it has earmarked $500,000 to be distributed among 21 in-the-works feature documentary projects.
The latest grants by the organization, launched in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation to boost indie films that expand the Jewish story, means JSP has now awarded 101 films a total of $3 million.
Among those on the grantee list this round are filmmakers Abner Benaim (Invasion), Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis), Tomer Heymann (Mr.
Gaga) and Dror Moreh (The Gatekeepers); producers including Judd Apatow, Yoni Brook (Philly D.A.) and Ina Fichman (Fire of Love); and executive producers Bonni Cohen (An Inconvenient Sequel) and Simon Kilmurry (Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy).
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