The Jewish Film Institute awarded $80,000 to six projects in 2024, its fifth granting cycle. The panelists for the 2024 grants cycle were Lisa Fruchtman, Su Kim, and Meredith Lavitt.
To combat the rising tension in their Brooklyn communities, a Rabbi and a Reverend team up to unite their congregations. As their faith is shaken, both congregations struggle to not let their differences drive them apart.
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Meredith Monk–Jewish-American composer, performer, and director–is one of the unsung creative geniuses of our time. Featuring interviews with Björk and David Byrne, Monk in Pieces illuminates Monk’s wildly original vocabulary of sound and imagery.
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Wednesdays in Mississippi is the little-known story of the first-ever all-women national civil rights program, whose multifaith Northern Black and White women citizen activist teams flew into deadly Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, clandestinely supporting integration efforts, and local Black women’s leadership to seed community economic and educational empowerment.
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Perl and Dalia make waves creating Bulletproof Stockings, the first all-female Hasidic rock band. They challenge gender norms as their global attention increases but their diverging visions and ideologies threaten the band's unity and future.
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Coexistence, My Ass! follows Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she struggles to create a one-woman comedy show called “Coexistence, My Ass!” about racism, sexism, war, peace and… her ass. With hatred and violence in Israel/Palestine turbo-charged like never before, “co-existence” already a problematic term now sounds like a bad joke — so where does she go from here?
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With the outbreak of a new war in Israel, a soldier is about to enter Lebanon. His mother refuses to wait for bad news and decides to take matters into her own hands.
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