The Mensch
The Mensch is a feature film that has completed production with XYZ Films and Starlight Partners attached. Daryl Eisenberg (casting director), David Ethan Shapiro (director) and Anthony DiGiacomo (producer) are attached. It was scheduled to shoot in Los Angeles, CA in June 2024. Production List last updated this listing on April 28, 2026.
Project Summary
A soulful comedy-drama set in Arizona about a young rabbi whose faith in god (and himself) is tested when he loses a priceless holocaust-era torah and must endure a wild one-night odyssey of biblical proportions to retrieve it and save his community.
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The production office and crew contacts for The Mensch are on file at Production List, last updated April 28, 2026, and are available to members. Membership is $29.95 for the first month.
Cast & Crew
Production
| Producer | Anthony DiGiacomo |
| Producer | Joe Hodorowicz |
| Producer | Jonah Platt |
| Producer | Michael Schreiber |
| Producer | Jorge Garcia Castro |
| Producer | Sheila Jaffe |
Writing
| Writer | David Ethan Shapiro |
| Writer | Melanie Shaw |
Directing
| Director | David Ethan Shapiro |
Casting
| Casting Director | Daryl Eisenberg |
Contact details for each person listed are on file and available to members.
Working on The Mensch
The Mensch has finished principal photography. How productions hire crew · Working as an extra · Reaching the production office
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Source: Production List, published by the Film & Television Industry Alliance. Cite this page as https://www.productionlist.com/production/the-mensch (last updated Apr 28, 2026).