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Nora Jacobson

BREAKING NEWS... Off The Grid Productions has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Media Development grant. Read more here.

"PASSION IN A PANDEMIC: Making Opera at Hanover High School
How did a group of talented public high school singers cope during the Pandemic? They learned opera! Witness their dreams and challenges, as well as their exquisite singing in this candid view of teenagers during a difficult time.

Scheduled to air on public television starting September 9th. 2023.
Check your local station for air times!

Live screening Thursday October 12th, 7pm
at Briggs Opera House
5 South Main St., 2nd floor, White River Junction, VT
Hosted by Junction Arts & Media (JAM)
Tickets $10 at door
(discounts available for seniors and students)

EXCITING NEWS!

Icarus Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights for Nora Jacobson's other new film, "Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind" (2022) about iconic American poet Ruth Stone. In addition to screening on the West Coast this Spring and summer, The film will be broadcast nationally on American Public Television starting in March. Check out our screenings page to find locations near you.

Films

Nora Jacobson is an award winning filmmaker who writes and directs narrative feature films and documentaries. She is devoted to telling character-driven stories that explore the intersection of place, ethnicity, gender and social justice. She believes that the first steps in advancing social change come from provoking meaningful discourse. Recently she has become fascinated by real stories from the past, and is developing two films and a television series about little-known people from New England who played important roles in shaping our nation's path to the present.

Works in Progress

FRACTALS: a film about ice and a community of pond hockey enthusiasts

In Development

Woman of Another World Lucy Prince Walks to Norwich A Peculiar Freedom Kiwakw, or Winter's Witch

Director's Reel (Narrative films)

Documentaries

Clips from Delivered Vacant

Clips from Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie

Experiments

Flocking, Murmurations

Living beings flock. Humans flock to celebrate, mourn, protest. No one really understands why birds, insects and mammals flock. The humans in this short film are flocking in White River Junction, Vermont to protest ICE raids, to celebrate Halloween, and to mourn the passing of a beloved young man.

Inside-Out

More information coming soon.