Jocelyn Jacobs is a writer and filmmaker. She writes character driven films about people who have a part of themselves shut down and inaccessible. The work of the film is to discover how this inaccessible part works unconsciously, and what needs to happen to bring it into the open and begin the process of integration. Her films are about human relationships grounded in a socio-economic context - contextual circumstances which inevitably bear down on one’s ideas of self worth. Her work is infused with subtle irony and a dry wit. Mike Leigh is her favorite filmmaker.
MONA, a short narrative film about a fledgling lesbian, screened at the Maryland Film Festival, Newfest, and Inside Out: Toronto's LGBT Film Festival. Jocelyn holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her career began as a visual artist and her artwork has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Tijuana and Toronto. She has also worked extensively as a script supervisor on commercials, shorts and feature films. Amazingly enough, she is also a the founder of the landscape design company - Astral Gardens.
She has written two feature scripts.
OFFICE HOURS
After moving to Pittsburgh, a scrappy, aspiring artist from a rich manipulative family develops a crush on her opportunistic queer film studies professor, while battling the lack of heat in her apartment.
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
A far-flung family comes together for a reading of a will.
EMAIL: jocelyn.jacobs@gmail.com