giving creative expression to the voice of the soul
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
by Matthew Wagner
“This is not for me at all,” Robin Saex, 30, announced loudly when she walked into the rabbi’s classroom in Los Angeles.
A long table was placed in the middle of the room. Men sat at the front and women, who all wore skirts and long sleeves, sat in the back.
The gender segregation appalled Saex, an accomplished theater director who had just started directing a hit TV sitcom. She did not understand why women had to be pushed to [...]
by Rebecca Honig Friedman
Orthodox filmmaker Robin Garbose is one happy camper right now. She has secured distribution for her first feature film in two mainstream movie theaters in Israel. But while any independent filmmaker would be happy to have her work released in theaters, the victory is especially sweet for Garbose, whose film, “A Light for Greytowers,” is intended for an audience of women only.
The Israeli theaters, the Cinematheques in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, have agreed to target [...]
See the original article on Arutz Sheva’s B’sheva
by Raphael Ahren
An American film that was rejected at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival because the Orthodox filmmaker demanded that it be screened exclusively in front of women will make its Israel premiere at next week’s Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival in Ashkelon.
The musical, “A Light for Greytowers,” was made by a group of Orthodox women who didn’t want men to see them dancing or singing out of modesty. The film was originally scheduled to be shown at the [...]
by Chana Kroll
The sixth annual Jewish Eye, which bills itself as a World Jewish Film Festival, marked a cinematic milestone this week when it served as the venue for the official Israeli premiere of “A Light for Greytowers,” a full-length strictly by-women, for-women production developed under the guidance of rabbinical authorities.
The sixth annual Jewish Eye film festival was held at the Ashkelon Academic College.
Directed by Hollywood filmmaker Robin Garbose, the film, which is based on the novel of the [...]
Director Robin Garbose & Actress Rivka Siegel on A7 Radio’s Walter’s World with Walter Bingham
The Musical film ‘A Light for Greytowers’ was made by women for women under strictly Halachic rules, even with breaks for prayers. Listen to some dialogue from the film, hear the theme music and what the director and one of the actresses has to sayabout it. Also: The international Court of Justice takes powers it doesn’t legally have. And: Did the two day President’s Conference just held in [...]
Miami Herald
by Jaweed Kaleem
A Light for Greytowers, a film by an Orthodox Jewish group that is meant to be seen by women only, will screen Sunday and Monday at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach.
Based on a popular Jewish novel, the musical tells the story of a Jewish girl in czarist Russia who, when separated from her family and sent to an orphanage, must deal with a matron who tries to stop her from keeping religious traditions.
The movie, which [...]
by Karen Avrech
Because the Jewish film A Light for Greytowers was produced for a female audience, Karen sat down and screened the DVD, while Robert was safely tucked away in his office.
The movie evokes the Broadway musicals “Oliver” and “Annie” with admirable professionalism while injecting just enough Yiddishkeit to establish it as a pioneering work in Jewish musical theater. The musical numbers are energetic and beautifully sung. The matron of the orphanage carries the show, but even with her powerful [...]
Life with Movies and Maxxxxx Blog
A LIGHT FOR GREYTOWERS (dir. Robin Garbose, USA, 2007, 93 mins.) The festival is featuring one of the most peculiar and invention films you will see at this, or any other year. A LIGHT FOR GREYTOWERS, is a musical comedy directed by Robin Garbose, and is the first theatrical release by Kol Neshama, an all-female performing arts conservatory. The film unashamedly, if not proudly, relies on the musical theater constructs that Disney (if not Charles [...]