Name: "WE MET AT GROSSINGER'S" in Encino
Start: 2026-05-16T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-16T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Laemmle Town Center 5

"WE MET AT GROSSINGER'S"  in Encino

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

Valley  Premiere of WE MET AT GROSSINGER'S - the story of the most beloved Catskills resort and location of "Dirty Dancing".

Laemmle Town Center 5

LA  Jewish Film Festival 2026 - 20th Anniversary!

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<h4>Q&amp;A TO FOLLOW WITH VERTERAN FILM AND TV PRODUCER HOWARD ROSENMAN</h4><h4>Cast includes Joel Grey, Judy Gold, Josh Gondelman, Jackie Hoffman</h4>ABOUT THE FILM: We Met at Grossinger’s is a joyfully nostalgic journey through the Jewish Catskills - once known as the Borscht Belt - told through the rise and fall of its most beloved resort: Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel, the real-life inspiration for Dirty Dancing.Built and run by three generations of trailblazing women, Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel stood at the center of a world Jews built for themselves after being shut out of America’s mainstream resorts and clubs. It became far more than a vacation destination - it was a sanctuary of identity, joy, and reinvention. Here, amid the laughter of comics, including Joan Rivers and Joel Grey, the brilliance of athletes, and the grace of guests like Jackie Robinson, Eddie Fisher, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Jewish Americans and other marginalized communities found a stage to redefine what it meant to be accepted, celebrated, and free. We Met at Grossinger's captures both the golden age and the fading echoes of the Catskills’ most beloved resort. It paints a sweeping portrait of an America in transformation - one that discovered, in the glow of the Borscht Belt, that inclusivity, creativity, and leisure lie at the very heart of the American dream.Directed by Paula Eiselt Produced by Robert Friedman and Mike Powers Executive Producer Limor Gott-Ronen Documentary/2025/United States/104 minutesIn partnership with The Brigade, Jewish Heritage Month - LA, and Jewish Historical Society of Southern California

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