ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
GIRLS IN TROUBLE TV is a feminist digital series exploring women in the Hebrew Bible and their enduring relevance to life today. In each episode, host Alicia Jo Rabins explores a Biblical woman’s story through storytelling, animation, interviews with Jewish diasporic leaders, and a music video.
SYNOPSIS
GIRLS IN TROUBLE TV is an episodic series exploring stories of Biblical women and their resonance with contemporary life through a feminist Jewish lens. The project is inspired by food & travel shows, but with a twist—each GIRLS IN TROUBLE TV episode explores a Biblical woman’s story through storytelling, song, and interviews with diverse Jewish artists and activists.
The project is co-created by the three-women team behind the award-winning indie feature film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff—creator Alicia Jo Rabins, director/editor Alicia J. Rose, and producer Lara Cuddy—and draws its title and concept, from host and co-creator Alicia Jo Rabins’ three-album indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women, Girls in Trouble.
This innovative project combines highly entertaining visual storytelling with serious feminist Biblical scholarship. Each episode brings attention to women’s voices in the ancient and contemporary worlds—in the Biblical narratives explored, and through interviews with groundbreaking artists, activists and Jewish leaders today, building a robust new canon of Jewish art and thought which considers women and girls as central to our tradition.
Each episode of GIRLS IN TROUBLE TV approaches a Biblical woman’s story from multiple perspectives, providing accessible entry points for viewers of all backgrounds while delving deep into the intricate inner worlds of these ancestral figures. Exploring intellectual, emotional, cultural and spiritual approaches to these stories, the project encourages people of all religions (or none) to consider how ancient Biblical women’s narratives might provide a mythic framework for contemporary life. Each episode also includes animated storytelling segments; filmed live-music performances of Girls in Trouble songs by Rabins and her band; and a brief taste of traditional Torah study through a feminist lens in a "Torah Hut Moment” segment.
PROJECT TYPE Documentary Series (Short Form)
DIRECTOR Alicia J. Rose
SCREENWRITER Alicia Jo Rabins, Alicia J. Rose
PRODUCER Lara Cuddy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Alicia Jo Rabins, Alicia J. Rose
WEBSITE aliciajrose.com
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