Jewish Story Partners, a new Los Angeles-based film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, named its first round of grantees Wednesday including projects from Joey Soloway (Transparent), Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Our New President) and Luke Lorentzen (Midnight Family).JSP awarded a total of $225,000 to ten U.S.
documentary projects. The selections jury included Lou Cove, founder of Jewish arts funding collaborative CANVAS; documentary film producer Julie Goldman, and Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival.“We are honored to support this bold and imaginative group of filmmakers and their projects,” Yutani said. “These excellent films
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