With the inaugural Jewish Roots Screenwriters Collective now complete, we’re proud to introduce the program’s first cohort of fellows. Over the past several months, these actively working film and television writers explored Jewish texts, wisdom, values, and culture while developing original stories and strengthening projects they ultimately pitched to industry financiers. Meet the writers helping […]

For years, the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema has observed the same patterns in Hollywood: Jewish characters reduced to familiar tropes, Jewish identity flattened into caricature, and Jewish stories told through a narrow lens that rarely reflects the depth or dignity of real Jewish life. Those observations were recently confirmed by data. JITC’s Jews […]