giving creative expression to the voice of the soul
Cinematheque program says the movie creators ‘politely request that only women and girls attend the screening.’
By Tsafi Saar
Cinematheque Tel Aviv attempted to prevent men from attending screenings of the movie “The Heart that Sings,” according to a man who attempted to purchase a ticket to the film Sunday.
Dr. Yosef Algazi said the woman working at the box office told him the movie was for women only. According to the Cinematheque’s description of the movie in its program that [...]
By Sarah Trappler Spielman
Orthodox director Robin Garbose is at it again. First she made history four years ago with a red carpet premiere of her movie musical “A Light for Greytowers” in Los Angeles. Modestly clad Orthodox girls and women filled Paramount Studio’s lot at the Sherry Lansing Theater, many attending a movie for the first time.
Last week, during Hanukkah, Garbose again proved that Jewish religious art can prevail with the women-only premiere of her second film, “The Heart that [...]
By Robin Garbose
As an Orthodox woman – hassidic, even – it has been hard for me to watch the news and developments from Israel in recent weeks.
On one hand, Jewish law and traditions of female modesty are very important to me. Although I did not grow up in an observant family, I came to embrace the value of personal modesty as an adult. Especially in Southern California, where the popular culture glamorizes and profits from immodesty, I have found tzniut [...]
by Hannah Brown
Robin Garbose’s groundbreaking new film, ‘The Heart that Sings,’ is a movie musical created exclusively for women and girls.
Many directors like to think themselves unique, but no one except Robin Saex Garbose could utter the sentence, “My frumkeit deepened while I was directing episodes of America’s Most Wanted.”
Garbose is in here this week to present her latest film, The Heart That Sings, which is being shown at the 13th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque [...]
Big news! The Israel premiere of “The Heart that Sings” will be a part of the 13th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, to be held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque from December 17-23, 2011. More details coming soon!
From our letter of invitation:
This annual event is an opportunity to explore the many and varied issues surrounding the question of Jewish identity, history, culture and religious practice. From the plethora of new films made each year, we select a handful that uncover little-known chapters [...]
by Sara Trappler Spielman
Robin Garbose, the Jewish director who earned headlines for her female-only screenings, is at it again, scheduling showings of her latest film in 11 American cities over the upcoming Passover holiday.
Crowds of fans turned up for the premiere of “The Heart That Sings” last month at the Jewish Children’s Museum, headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch youth organization Tzivos Hashem, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. They filled every last seat – a total of 700 – [...]
Orthodox Hollywood director, Robin Garbose, will be screening her most recent film, “The Heart that Sings,” for female audiences in Chicago during Passover.
The movie musical is about a young Holocaust survivor named Miriam, who lives in New York in the 1950s and spends a summer at a girls camp in the Catskills as drama director. At first, the campers take advantage of her quiet, broken spirit, but in the end they transform each other in a magnificent way.
Garbose’s first [...]
Talk about a niche movie market.
Robin Garbose, a former Hollywood director who runs a performing arts conservatory in Los Angeles for Orthodox girls, targets the “women-only” demographic. And most of those women are frum.
But for that demographic, Garbose, who became Orthodox 20 years ago, is something of a hero. When her second musical feature, “The Heart that Sings,” premiered here recently at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 700 girls and women packed the venue, cheering as Garbose’s [...]
Can a young holocaust survivor direct a drama program in a 1950s Catskills summer camp? Robin Garbose, an accomplished Hollywood-based Orthodox film director tackles the question with a movie musical, where lead character Miriam is initially a quiet and broken spirit, but she and her campers are both transformed by their interactions.
“The Heart that Sings” features Orthodox actresses, singers and dancers trained at Kol Neshama, a Los Angeles acting school for Orthodox women, which Garbose directs.
“We broke the ice with [...]
by Rochel Levy
True performers look for every opportunity they can to exercise their talents, so when summer comes around, the numerous camps and jobs targeted to the average fun-loving girl just will not do. Performers need something bigger: Kol Neshama. As Robin Garbose, the director, puts it, “Kol Neshama is not a camp, it is an experience.”
Ever since I can remember, I have loved to act. I always knew it was what I wanted to do, and it [...]
by Sara Trappler Spielman
NEW YORK – A movie shot in Hollywood with values based in laws of Jewish modesty is having its Toronto debut on Chol Hamoed Sukkot, Sunday, Sept. 25 and Monday, Sept. 26 at Bais Yaakov High School.
Orthodox director Robin Garbose’s A Light for Greytowers is a sweet, orphanage-genre feature musical film set in Victorian England with a Jewish twist. It screens exclusively to female-only audiences because there are Orthodox women and girls singing and dancing in the [...]
Director Robin Garbose on A7 Radio’s The Beat with Ben Bresky
Robin Garbose, former director of the hit TV sitcom Head of the Class is in Israel to talk about her new Jewish movie A Light for Greytowers, featuring an all female cast and being shown to all-female audiences only.
Listen to the MP3 audio interview