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’s film, SOLITARY, offers an
unprecedented look at life inside a superman prison.
Jacobson’s prior film A PLACE AT THE TABLE,
premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The
film, which examines the shocking paradox of hunger
in the wealthiest nation on earth through the very
personal stories of three American families who face
food insecurity daily, won the IDA’s prestigious Pare
Lorentz Award and was nominated for Best Feature
Documentary.
’s most recent film for Frontline,
POLICING THE POLICE, brings viewers inside the
Newark Police Department — one of many forces in
America ordered to reform. Jacoby previously worked
for CBS’s 60 Minutes, producing investigative stories
with correspondent Steve Kroft. Before that Jacoby
was a producer for CNBC where he produced HOUSE
OF CARDS, about the global financial crisis. Jacoby
has received two Gerald Loeb awards, the top prize in
business reporting.
produced and directed HOOP DREAMS,
winner of a Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Award.
His many films include STEVIE, winner of the
Sundance Cinematography Award; the Independent
Documentary Association Award-winning miniseries
THE NEW AMERICANS; Tribeca Grand Prize winner
THE WAR TAPES; and NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL
OF ALLEN IVERSON for ESPN’s Peabody winning “30
for 30” series. His most recent documentary is LIFE
ITSELF.
‘s most recent film CAMERAPERSON
premiered at Sundance 2016, was the closing night
film at New Directors/New Films and won Grand Jury
Prizes at San Francisco and Sheffield. Her most recent
camerawork appears in the Cannes 2016 premiere of
RISK, Oscar-winning CITIZEN FOUR, BORN TO FLY:
ELIZABETH STREB VS GRAVITY, THE WOUND AND
THE GIFT AND VERY SEMI-SERIOUS.
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