EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Reboot Studios, the production arm of the nonprofit Reboot co-founded by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Righteous Persons Foundation, has expanded its annual support of contemporary Jewish storytelling to include features.
Reboot Studios’ third Creator Fund slate brings nine titles, among them the horror comedy Juice Cleanse. The company’s first original narrative feature as a backer is one of four features to receive what it envisions will be ongoing support for the format in the sub-$500,000 range.
Since launching in 2023 Reboot Studios has invested close to $1m across various projects at pivotal stages and provides financing, production infrastructure and strategic partnership support across film, theatre, audio, and emerging media.
Juice Cleanse hails from director Shoshana Ehrenkranz and writer-producer Jonathan Mizrahi and centres on a Mizrahi Jewish girl recovering from an eating disorder who must help her dwindling Jewish community from a mysterious kosher diet drink.
Epic Pictures took the project to this year’s Berlin and Cannes markets and will release in the US.
The other features announced under the 2026 Creator Fund slate are the documentary Father Figures, in which director Emma D. Miller reconnects with her estranged father who spends his days in retirement holding intimate discussions with ventriloquist dummies; and Dani Faith Leonard’s documentary Keeping Up With The Siegfrieds about America’s largest Nazi movement and the towns that allowed it to exist for decades.
All the projects are in post and the aim is festival premieres in the first half of 2027. A fourth, narrative, feature in the works will be announced in due course.
Supporting diaspora around the world
“Too often Jewish stories are reduced to Holocaust stories or stories about a particular type of person in New York,” Reboot Studios managing director and executive producer Noam Dromi told Screen. “There’s a broad diaspora around the world and we have seen an opportunity to support that.”
Dromi continued, “There’s such incredible talent here and rather than be a grant-making body we wanted to build a studio. We want to be in the Jewish story IP business. We want to see if we can create cultural capital and expand the ways to express Jewish identity […] Stories you might expect with characters you might not expect to see.”
Reboot Studios was one of three companies to provide financing and services for Juice Cleanse alongside Future Proof Films and Manhattan Movie Studio. The feature was partly financed through non-equity tax deductible dollars, which Dromi said was central to what he called a hybrid film finance model, whereby Reboot Studios can provide tax-deductible philanthropic support through the affiliation with its nonprofit parent.
“That can sometimes sit alongside equity financing, grants, pre-sales, incentives or other more traditional financing elements, depending on the project,” Dromi said. “We don’t just give money and are actively involved on set and work on the marketing and impact campaigns.”
The nine-strong Creator slate includes 2026 Tribeca Film Festival short Saba directed by Liron Topaz about a boy and his grandfather living in a surreal world where gravity is reversed; narrative short Triple Mitzvah; experimental theatre Deadclass, Ohio; documentary video game Normandie; play The Goldsmith starring Sharone Sayegh.
Previous shorts to have gone through the Fund include Shaina Feinberg’s 2024 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival entry We Should Eat, and Jessie Kahnweiler’s 2024 Documentary Channel acquisition Just The Tip.
Beyond the 2026 slate, Reboot Studios is building a broader distribution and platform strategy for Jewish storytelling that includes an expanded relationship with the streaming platform ChaiFlicks.
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