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Announcements

The Wrap – Jewish Story Partners’ Reprise Grant Program Awards $175,000 to 6 Feature Docs | Exclusive

November 19, 2025
The Wrap – Jewish Story Partners Nonprofit Selects 26 Documentary Grantees to Receive $545,000 | Exclusive

June 13, 2025
Realscreen -Jewish Story Partners selects 10 doc projects for latest Reprise Grant cycle

November 20, 2024
Deadline – Jewish Story Partners’ Latest Round Of Grantees Pushes Total Films Helped Past 100

June 20, 2024
Realscreen – Jewish Story Partners reveals doc projects selected for fall 2023 funding cycle

December 14, 2023
Jewish Story Partners Set 2023 Slate of Documentary Film Grantees

May 23, 2023
Jewish Story Partners Announces Fourth Slate of Grants to 20 Film Projects

November 15, 2022
Jewish Story Partners Announces Third Slate of Grants for 16 New Film Projects

May 27, 2022
Jewish Story Partners Announces Second Slate of Grants

November 22, 2021
Jewish Story Partners Announces Bold Project Slate Uplifting Jewish Stories

April 28, 2021
Announcing Jewish Story Partners

April 15, 2021

JSP In The News

eJewish Philanthropy – Your Daily Phil: ‘No atheists in foxholes’: 2 years of war turning Israelis more religious

November 20, 2025
IMDB – Jewish Story Partners’ Reprise Grant Program Awards $175,000 to 6 Feature Docs | Exclusive

November 20, 2025
Yahoo News – Jewish Story Partners’ Reprise Grant Program Awards $175,000 to 6 Feature Docs | Exclusive

November 20, 2025
Candid – Jewish Story Partners’ Reprise Grant Program Awards $175,000 to 6 Feature Docs | Exclusive

November 19, 2025
IndieWire – For Her Filmmaking Debut, Casting Director Heidi Levitt Found the One Actor Who Couldn’t Be Directed: Her Husband

November 17, 2025
Variety – Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’

October 17, 2025
Deadline – Tom Shoval Talks Plans To Give Hostage Doc ‘A Letter To David’ New Ending Following Release Of Friend David Cunio From Gaza

October 15, 2025
CNN – ‘It was a huge topic of my nightmares,’ says Russian journalist on life under Putin’s clampdown on the press

September 4, 2025
NPR – Marlee Matlin Interview

August 19, 2025
Screen Daily – ‘The Last Spy’ review: CIA spymaster Peter Sichel shares his eye-opening life story

June 29, 2025
Time Magazine – In A Photographic Memory, a Daughter Pieces Together the Mother She Never Knew

June 26, 2025
IndieWire – Some of the Best Sound Design This Year Is in a Documentary About Marlee Matlin

June 24, 2025
eJewish Philanthropy – Your Daily Phil: Israeli civil society confronts Iranian barrages

June 16, 2025
The Realscreen – Jewish Story Partners awards $545,000 in doc funding for spring 2025 granting cycle

June 16, 2025
Variety – Palm Springs International ShortFest Announces Jury and Programming for 2025 – Film News in Brief

June 13, 2025
The Nation – Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism

March 3, 2025
The New York Times – ‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review: Graphic Doom

February 20, 2025
Rolling Stone – ‘This Little Woman Made Giant Works of Art’: Joan Baez, Lily Tomlin Talk Janis Ian in New Documentary

February 13, 2025
Variety – ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Review: Urgent and Brilliant Documentary Finds Radical Ideas Following Israeli Stand-Up Comic’s Peacekeeping Efforts

January 26, 2025
The Hollywood Reporter – ‘Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore’ Review: A Vibrant Documentary Portrait of a Trailblazer’

January 23, 2025
Forward – “An inspiring documentary shows the power of Black-Jewish unity”

December 10, 2024
Variety – ‘All God’s Children’ Review: A Brooklyn Synagogue and a Church Seeking Unity Offer an Edifying Parable for Our Time

November 23, 2024
The New York Times – ‘A Photographic Memory’ Review: The Imperfect Past

November 21, 2024
The New York Times – ‘Sabbath Queen’ Review: Capturing the Act of Questioning

November 21, 2024
eJewish Philanthropy – One year later, funders back storytelling efforts to help public grapple with Oct. 7 attacks

October 14, 2024
Vulture – The Best Doc of the Year Is Like a 5.5 Hour-Long Panic Attack

October 5, 2024
IndieWire – ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: A Scary and Riveting Portrait of Russia’s Last Independent News Channel

October 2, 2024
Realscreen – Jewish Story Partners unveils 2024 grantee cohort

June 27, 2024
The Times of Israel – ‘Fauda’ creators, other filmmakers working on October 7 films

June 27, 2024
Variety – Jewish Story Partners Issues $450,000 in Grants for 18 New Documentary Films

December 15, 2023
eJewish Philanthropy – Your Daily Phil: World Zionist Congress votes + Biden’s antisemitism strategy

May 24, 2023
IMDB – Jewish Story Partners Set 2023 Slate of Documentary Film Grantees

May 23, 2023
The Hollywood Reporter – ‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Compelling Profiles in the Spiritual Nitty-Gritty of Illness and Grief

January 21, 2023
Jewish Insider – Spiritual care documentary ‘A Still Small Voice’ debuts at Sundance

January 19, 2023
Realscreen – Jewish Story Partners announces fourth round of grantees

November 15, 2022
Realscreen – Exclusive: Jewish Story Partners unveils third slate of doc grantees

May 27, 2022
Variety – Jewish Story Partners Announces Second Wave of Film Grants, Pledges $1 Million by 2023

November 22, 2021
eJewish Philanthropy – Steven Spielberg’s new Jewish film fund plans an endowment campaign

May 20, 2021
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Here are the first 10 Jewish documentaries funded through Jewish Story Partners

April 30, 2021
Deadline – Steven Spielberg-Backed Jewish Story Partners’ First Grantees Include Docs By Joey Soloway, Maxim Pozdorovkin

April 28, 2021
Forward – Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

April 18, 2021
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Steven Spielberg launches foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

April 16, 2021
The Times of Israel – Steven Spielberg starts foundation to fund Jewish-themed documentaries

April 16, 2021
Screen International – Steven Spielberg among backers of new Jewish Story Partners foundation

April 15, 2021
The Wrap – Steven Spielberg Leads $2 Million in Funding to Support Films Telling Diverse Jewish Stories

April 15, 2021
Variety – Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw Donate $1 Million to Help Launch Jewish Story Partners Film Foundation

April 15, 2021
Deadline – Jewish Story Partners, Backed By Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, Launches Today; Led By Roberta Grossman, Caroline Libresco

April 15, 2021
The Hollywood Reporter – Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw Back Jewish Story Partners Amid Time of Racial Reckoning

April 15, 2021