by Sandy Banks I attended a movie screening Sunday on the Paramount Pictures lot that was so packed, benches had to be hauled in to give everyone a seat in the Sherry Lansing Theater. I hadn’t seen that many girls and women in one place since my last Girl Scout Jamboree. When the curtain dropped […]
FilmStew.com: A Light Destined for the Ladies
At a December 29th screening, the co-writer and co-producer of the film being shown on the Paramount Studios lot – the 19th century Jewish tale The Light of Greytowers – welcomed visitors at a table in front of the Sherry Lansing Theater, but he himself was unable to join the 280 or so in attendance. […]
Jewish Daily Forward: Girls’ Night Out in Hollywood
by Sara Trappler Spielman Imagine a Hollywood premiere with all the glitz: red carpet, beautiful cast, photographers’ flashing lights, exhilarating buzz. Now, picture that same event with just one difference — only women may attend. Director Robin Garbose’s first feature film, “A Light for Greytowers,” will premiere in Los Angeles on December 29 at Paramount […]
Jewish Journal: My Holywood Moment
by David Suissa It was your classic indie film set. Small crew. Cool Italian cameraman with a Fedora hat and the studied nonchalance of someone who’s been there before. A grunge looking lighting guy who probably has alternative rock on his iPod. A few grips and assistants running around setting up equipment and doing little […]
Jewish Journal: Unorthodox Premier Launches Orthodox ‘A Light for Greytowers’
by Celia Soudry It’s a sight you wouldn’t expect on the Paramount Studios lot. Women gathered with their daughters on a recent Saturday night outside of the Sherry Lansing Theater to see a film. And there were no men in sight. “This is a momentous occasion,” director Robin Garbose said. “For some of these women, […]
Jewish Journal: 7 Days in Arts
EXCERPT: April 16 – Sunday Ladies only, you are cordially invited to a special screening of “Together as One”, a multicamera video produced by Kol Neshama, an L.A. arts program for Orthodox girls and women. The film about positive attitude and watching what you say has a “Wizard of Oz”-ian spin, when the snide-mouthed protagonist, […]
Jewish Journal: Film Raising Eyebrows
by Julie Gruenbaum Fax When Robin Saex Garbose first opened a conservatory for Orthodox girls in the summer of 2000, she got a stern warning from a prominent educator. “He said to me, ‘If things don’t happen the way I think they should happen, I will close you down. I won’t let young women attend […]
Jewish Journal: 7 Days in Arts
EXCERPT: August 19 – Tuesday No boys allowed tonight. Kol Neshama Performing Arts Conservatory takes the stage with a three-day run of two shows, today, tomorrow and Thursday. The day camp for Orthodox girls was started by Robin Saex Garbose to give religious girls an outlet for their creativity. With modesty preserved, the girls sing […]
Jewish Press: Kol Neshama: Voice of the Soul
by Brenda Goldstein Robin Saex Garbose truly did a kiddush Hashem by breathing life into Kol Neshama, a summer performing arts conservatory in Los Angeles of which she is artistic director. The acting-singing-dancing troupe of approximately 25 schoolgirls from all over the country performed on August 28-30 at the Ivar Theater in Hollywood. This year’s […]
Jewish Journal: Voices of the Soul
by Julie Gruenbaum Fax In a basement aerobics studio in the Westside Jewish Community Center, four girls dance before a wall of mirrors, perfecting the nuances of their twirls and chassés. Two of them, playing sisters on a train to Auschwitz, sing in Yiddish “Aufin Pripertchik” (“Upon the Hearth”). Two others dance behind them, representing […]
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