Diaspora vision
A class drawn from many worlds brings inherited melodies into the genres they actually live in.
Feature musical in development
JEWISH
One class. One inherited songbook. Who gets to sing it next.
JEWISH is a contemporary musical feature that turns inherited Jewish songs into living popular culture for young Jewish, Jew-ish, adjacent, and non-Jewish audiences.
Built for Reboot Studios review.
Rigli Publishing · doublesign28@gmail.com
Why now
Jewish culture answers with music.
Antisemitism is rising and a generation has inherited holidays without history, melodies without meaning, jokes without memory. JEWISH answers that gap with cultural reactivation: old songs returned to living voices, told as memory, humor, argument, and renewal.
The most rebellious thing American Jewish culture can do right now is sing.
The film
Inheritance, belonging, and the noise that survival makes.
At MASA, an elite Manhattan performing-arts school, an eleventh-grade class collides by accident with old Jewish songs in Yiddish and Hebrew. To honor their teacher, Joseph Shapiro, who has just found the handwritten songbook of his late mother, Rebecca, they reimagine her songs in their own modern arrangements. Klezmer becomes hip-hop. A wedding tune becomes pop. A Yiddish folk song becomes a stage anthem. The conflict is not whether tradition survives. The conflict is who gets to sing it next.
Format
Feature musical
Contemporary story, fifteen-song soundtrack, theatrical-first path, and a future concert version that can live beyond the screen.
Stage
In development
Treatment, songbook, character one-sheets, and first public demo are active. Pitch deck and development budget prepared for direct review.
Proof of concept
A ten-minute proof-of-concept builds the engine the feature runs on.
A ten-minute, AI-assisted proof-of-concept brings the world, the songs, and the key situations of JEWISH to the screen. It is the tool we take to producers and financiers to raise full production funding: a vivid, efficient way to show how the inherited melodies land when they are reborn in the cast's own modern arrangements.
Listen
Forever is the first public song.
Forever rebuilds the Mezinka wedding ritual as a song anyone can sing. It is the clearest proof of concept: inherited melody, contemporary pulse, communal joy.
Why Reboot
A Jewish story built for scale, argument, and song.
Young audience
A Gen Z ensemble remixes old songs into contemporary forms without sanding away their roots.
Culture against fear
The film answers antisemitism with public music, humor, argument, and a shared stage.
Premium with scale
Feature musical, soundtrack, school materials, and live concert path designed beyond a single screen.
Beyond the film
The film comes first. The world keeps singing after.
The feature carries the songs, the ensemble, and the central idea in one premium form. A second life is already mapped: a stage transfer drawn from the film's own ending, a soundtrack album, a touring concert, and community choir materials. The universe is shaped by the film, not the other way around.
Timeline
A 24-month path from development to premiere target.
| Milestone | Window | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment, songbook, one-sheets, web deck, public demo "Forever" | 2026 | Complete |
| PDF pitch deck and development budget | Summer 2026 | Preparing |
| Reboot seed-investment decision | December 2026 | Target |
| AI proof-of-concept and finished English song recordings | 2027 | Target |
| Take proof-of-concept to producers, raise production financing | 2027 | Target |
| Feature production | 2027-2028 | Target |
| Festival run | 2028-2029 | Target |
Materials
The web deck is live. The full package is available on request.
For Reboot Studios review, the materials package includes the pitch deck, treatment, character one-sheets, song map, timeline, development budget, and demos.
Pitch deck
Treatment
Character one-sheets
Song map
Timeline
Development budget
Demos
Contact
Walter J. Kin
Creator of JEWISH
Music released as RIGLI
Rigli Publishing
Member of The Dramatists Guild of America. Walter J. Kin releases music as RIGLI, with a catalog of 28 original songs and roughly 10 million combined streams: about 5 million on the RIGLI YouTube channel and 5 million across streaming platforms.