Boston Rose Films
Stories that spark change
We produce film and series that widen the frame, stories rooted in dignity, justice, belonging, and what we owe each other.
Why these stories matter
Because stories define what feels possible—and what feels worth fighting for. These projects bring audiences closer to lived experience and help drive culture toward awareness, action, and change.
Stories can shift what people feel, and what they do next.
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Featured film
A Letter to David
My Friend Sam
An up-lifting, intergenerational testament to a life reclaimed, moral inheritance, and humble generosity unwinds through the remarkable bond between a Holocaust survivor and young girl who would become a global musical icon. At the center is Samuel Marder, a Romanian-born Jewish violinist whose childhood was crushed by antisemitic violence, forced marches, and imprisonment in a Ukrainian encampment before he emerged starving and alone into a displaced persons camp in postwar Germany. After years without even hearing music, his life begins anew through an unlikely return to the violin and a full scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music, allowing him to rebuild his life note by note and forge a distinguished musical career.
Decades later in the Bronx, his open door and boundless kindness become the foundation of an immigrant child’s musical education, gifted Regina Spektor, now a globally acclaimed singer-songwriter whose singular voice and poetic lyricism grew out of those early lessons. She reflects on the life-changing influence of Marder and his late wife, pianist Sonia Vargas, who nurtured her artistry without cost or condition.
Now in his nineties, widowed yet indefatigable, Marder begins publicly sharing the long-buried trauma of his Holocaust past alongside Spektor, transforming private memory into living testimony and a powerful mission against prejudice. Intimate interviews, archival photographs, animated memory sequences, and luminous musical passages bring forward survival not only as an act of endurance but as daily empathy in action.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release date: 2026
Bad River
Bad River is a powerful new documentary that follows the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and their ongoing fight for sovereignty and environmental protection. The film describes their history of resistance, from the formation of the American Indian Movement to stopping an open-pit mining project and confronting environmental threats, like trains carrying sulfuric acid across unstable reservation tracks. Led by Grant Hill, Allison Abner, and filmmaker Mary Mazzio, the documentary features indigenous scholars, former heads of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a Catholic leader who acknowledges the role of the church in “cultural genocide” and initiates reconciliation efforts with a $250,000 contribution and return of cultural artifacts.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2024
Watch on Peacock, Prime, or AppleTV
Front Row
In the midst of the war in Ukraine, a group of exiled and homesick professional Ukrainian ballet dancers have banded together to form The United Ukrainian Ballet. As the space between the front row and the front line diminishes, Front Row follows them on their world tour, dancing for their country and the loved ones they had to leave behind. The filmmakers sought to tell the hopeful and human side of this story about the strength of the human spirit rather than the bleak story of war. The film is directed by Miriam Guttman and produced by Scenery.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2024
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Adaptive
Adaptive is a multi-episode documentary series profiling four athletes as they train to qualify and compete in the course of one full cycle of the Paralympic Games. It’s part Cheers” part “Hard Knocks” and will use intimate verité filmmaking combined with a dynamic style that lives up to the world-class athletic feats and stakes of international competition. The project is spearheaded by Ryan S. Porush, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and writer based in Los Angeles.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2025
Watch on Peacock
Recording Evil
Released on April 2025
Recording Evil, created by Udi Zamberg, Yaron Niski and Danny Liber and produced by T.H. Productions, is a three-part documentary series uncovering the hidden truths of World War II through the largest spy operation in history. The documentary is based on secret recordings of Nazi soldiers and officers held prisoners of war by the British military. With access to hundreds of transcripts, it exposes the atrocities of the Holocaust told by the Nazis themselves. Unaware they were being recorded, the prisoners talked freely and described in real time how the Jews were being exterminated. The series/feature doc reveals never-before-heard stories and detailed conversations that uncover the secrets soldiers and generals attempted to keep hidden. The recordings, with the aid of researchers who examined the archives, reveal the active involvement of the German army in these atrocities 80 years after the Holocaust. The series was released on April 2025 on Israel's KAN 11, marking 80 years since the end of World War 2 and the Holocaust.
One Day in October
One Day in October is a drama mini-series that premiered on October 6, 2024, on Yes Drama. It is an anthology series exploring the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel, where Hamas terrorists murdered and took Israeli hostages. It portrays stories of love, bravery, endurance, and grief arising from the senseless violence. The series was co-produced by FOX Entertainment, YES, Sparks Go and ZOA Films.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2024
The New Jew: Days of War
In The New Jew: Days of War, which premiered in November 2024 on Kan 11, Israeli comedian Guri Alfi returns to the United States in the aftermath of October 7, 2023. Through candid conversations with Israeli and Jewish students, families of hostages and fallen soldiers, community members, and public figures, Alfi seeks to explore whether this great crisis has united us or, rather, deepened the divide. The series was produced by Nawipro.
Executive Producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2024
Kugel
Kugel is an Israeli drama series serving as a prequel to the events of the series Shtisel, which premiered on December 5, 2024, on Yes Drama. The series focuses on the lives of Nuchem and Libbi Shtisel, who live in the Jewish community of Antwerp, Belgium. The father and daughter, each in their own way, must cope with the fact that the mother of the family has left them. Nuchem is willing to forgive his ex-wife in the hope that she will return to him but Libbi refuses to allow her mother a place in her life. At the same time, Libbi harbors a secret dream that could jeopardize her chances of marriage. The series was created by Yehonatan Indursky and produced by Abot Hameiri Barkai.
Co-producer: Jay Ruderman
Release year: 2024