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Jacob the Movie

About Me

When Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped in 2002, months of continuous national news coverage helped bring her back to her family. Within days of her kidnapping, five minority children disappeared. Their names were never mentioned on air nationally. They are all still missing. "Jacob" is a narrative film exploring the power of the media, what captures the attention of a nation, and the effects national attention has on the people excluded from it.

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JACOB accepted into the LA ShortsFest!!!

So we FINALLY finished post production, and right off the bat, we landed our first film festival. We're showing in Los Angeles at the LA ShortsFest (www.lashortsfest.com), the largest short film fest...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:20:00 GMT

JACOB is awarded a finishing grant!!!

The New York State Council on the Arts has given us an INCREDIBLY generous grant to finish JACOB.HUGE thanks to the State of New York--they've been incredibly supportive of this film and its message, ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:14:00 GMT

Screening in Chapel Hill, Part II

The film screening in Chapel Hill, NC was amazing--thank you so much to everyone who came out for it. It was a great crowd, and the response was amazing. There were even a few tears shed in the audi...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:14:00 GMT

SCREENING IN CHAPEL HILL, NC

On October 2, "Jacob" will be screening at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to open Race Relations Week, a week of on-campus events devoted to issues of race. Philip Buiser, the direct...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:43:00 GMT

new magazine article on

A really great article has come out about Jacob entitled "Social Fiction" in Ins & Outs Magazine, a Long Island City, NY-based arts magazine. The article, by Cynthia Kane, talks about the film as a w...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:55:00 GMT

new stats on missing children

486 children have been reported missing this year in the united states as of july 1.177 of them are caucasian169 are african american115 are hispanic19 are bi-/multiracial4 are asian2 are american ind...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:37:00 GMT

international financial support

we received our first donation from overseas yesterday--from doha, qatar, to be exact.that donor joins a growing list of donors from all over the u.s., and now, from all over the world. in combinatio...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:25:00 GMT

WE WON USER'S CHOICE!!!

that's right, JACOB won the june vote for myspace user's choice! it's the first award we've received, and we haven't even finished post-production yet...thanks to everyone who voted for us. it's rea...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:59:00 GMT

HUGE films from HUGE directors showing with JACOB June 16-18

Anyone who lives in the NYC area should come see these films, showing with a rough cut of JACOB at FILM WILLIAMSBURG June 16-18:*a series of short films by Rian Johnson, director of Sundance award-win...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:04:00 GMT

JACOB rough cut screening June 16 to benefit Tamika Huston Foundation for the Missing

Friday, June 16th: JACOB Rough Cut Screening at the FILM WILLIAMSBURG KICK-OFF PARTY AND BENEFIT FOR MISSING CHILDRENFriday, June 16th, 2006 will kick-off the first annual FILM WILLIAMSBURG, a showcas...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:44:00 GMT