Machon/Nivonim Kishroniyah Filmmaking: The Day the Rabbi Came Back

Please enjoy the completed short film, created by the Machon/Nivonim chanichim/ot (campers) in our Kishroniyah filmmaking group!

The kids created this completely from scratch!  They came up with the idea, wrote the script, created a shot list, filmed all the footage, and helped to assemble the complete edit.

The result is this incredible suspense/horror yarn: The Day The Rabbi Came Back.

Filmmaking Kishroniyah is overseen by Arnon Shorr.  Arnon is a writer/director of exciting, character-driven adventures and thrillers, where heroes grapple with something strange or different and, in doing so, learn important truths about themselves.  Arnon shares: “I spent most of my childhood between worlds: a Hebrew speaker in America, a private school kid with no money, a suburbanite in a rented apartment. Whenever I’d set foot in one world, my other foot would betray me as different. For that reason, I started telling stories that embrace the peculiar, where encounters with the strange reveal who we are.”

Arnon is not just a great filmmaker; he’s a great comic book author!  He and I have collaborated on a number of comic books and graphic novels, which he wrote and I illustrated: the graphic novel about Jewish pirates José and the Pirate Captain Toledano; Brother’s Keeper (which tells the true story of Arnon’s grandfather’s experiences in Israel’s 1948 War for Independence); The Beast and the Booth (an all-ages Sukkot werewolf story) and The Tomb of the Broken Amulet (an all-ages Pesach mummy story)!

Kishroniyah is one of our centerpiece programs for our Tzad Bet (B-Side) chanichim (campers).  Kishroniyah comes from the Hebrew word kishron, which means skill.  For one week each summer, we invite an array of high-level specialists into camp to run intense special programs for our older campers.  Machon and Nivonim have 12 hours of Kishroniyah from Sunday-to-Wednesday, and Magshimim and Bogrim have 8 hours of Kishroniyah from Wednesday-to-Friday.