Created by/starring/scored by Alicia Jo Rabins, directed and edited by Alicia J. Rose, and produced by Lara Cuddy, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff is a micro-budget indie feature film released in 2021. The film screened at Film at Lincoln Center (NYC), the Castro Theatre (SF), and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia), and won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2021 Ashland Independent Film Festival, the Terry Porter Visionary Award at the 2021 Sarasota Film Festival and Best Young Director Award at the 2021 Port Townsend Film Festival.


"A whimsical hybrid of musical, memoir and documentary [which] looks at Bernard Madoff through the lens of Jewish identity." —New York Times