Greenville Jewish Film Festival
We've reinvented the GJFF movie experience you've come to love with additional pop-up movies throughout the year!
We are connecting our community, one film at a time.
We intentionally choose the movies to share at each of our events to bring audiences together. We want festival-goers to experience the cultural diversity and vibrancy each film has to offer.
Culture
Our film festival events bring our cultures & communities closer together.
Cuisine
Delicious foods carefully selected to pair with the cultures highlighted in the movie.
Collaboration
Community partners ensure a rich & culturally diverse experience.
Become a Friend of the Festival
How much would you like to donate? As a contributor to Greenville Jewish Film Festival, we make sure your donation goes directly to sharing and promoting our heritage and culture with the general public.
We value your support at any level.
Where does my donation go?
As a 501(c)(3), we rely solely on grants and donations to support our mission of bringing high-quality films to the Greenville community. We believe that access to quality films is essential to a vibrant and diverse cultural scene and we are committed to making this possible for all. So, if you share our vision and appreciate the work we do, please consider making a donation today. Your support will allow us to continue bringing wonderful films to Greenville, and help us make a difference in the lives of our community members. Thank you for considering our cause!
We showcase films that expose the community of Greenville to the rich and diverse heritage of Judaism.
Our heritage includes filmmaking, storytelling, cuisine, literature, comedy and history.
Our hope is that through the art of film, we can inspire our community to see beyond differences, and instead, connect over the ties that bind us all – such as respect, love, and humanity. Our selection of movies allows for an opportunity to think critically and feel powerfully.
We are strengthening our community through film.
The festival seeks to offer quality entertainment that will create an ongoing vehicle for the upstate of South Carolina and greater Greenville Community to strengthen its cultural foundation, promote diversity, and grow Greenville’s reputation as a culturally vibrant city.
Founded in 2018 by Osnat Rosen, Helaine Meyers and Caroline Warthen, we recognized that Greenville is strategically placed halfway between Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA and therefore was a perfect place to begin a new and different type of film festival.
Explore our festival through our history!
Click a year below to learn more!
2023
In 2023, we hosted SpringFest, SummerFest and a special showing of “Farewell Mr. Haffmann” in November.
2022
In 2022, we hosted our SummerFest and a special showing of “Beloved: Children of the Holocaust” in the winter.
2020
In 2020, we featured Golda’s Balcony, Shoelaces, and an entire day of short-form storytelling through film.
2019
2019 was the inaugural Greenville Jewish Film Festival. We were honored by the love and support received in our first year!
2018
In 2018, we hosted a kickoff event that featured deliciously authentic Israeli food, refreshments and desserts catered by Yafo Kitchen of Charlotte, NC.
Our Sponsors
We are grateful for our community support.
This program is funded in part by the Metropolitan arts Council which receives support by the City of Greenville, BMW Manufacturing Company, SEW Eurodrive, the South Carolina Arts Commission, and many other sources.
Tom & Sandy Kester
Morris Family Foundation
Richard & Berry Zander
Allan & Ellen Weinberg
Steven J. Gold
Shelly & Naomi Zimbler
Stacey & Philip Howard
Patrice Goldberg
Andrew Skinner
Bruce & Alice Schlein
Michael & Jamie Rickoff
James Rymer
