BETHANY JACOBSON
FILMMAKER & PHOTOGRAPHER
Filmography
The Electric Virgin • Screenwriter • feature screenplay in development • 2017 - current
Selected for Stowe Writers Lab, June 2021, Winner Best Screenplay Moondance Film Festival, Finalist for 2017 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Foundation Film Fund Award. Selected for the 2017 Maison Des Scenaristes at Cannes Film Festival 2017
Ode to a cemetery • 2020 • Cinematographer/Editor
Sally Lindover: A Life Remembered • Writer, Director, Editor • 2019
Hotel Bleu • Writer, Director, Producer • narrative short film • 26 minutes • 2016 • Available on Amazon. Distributed by First Focus International, Sofy.tv, and Go indie.tv. Winner of the Best Live Action Short Film at the 2016 Louisiana International Film Festival, Winner Bronze Remy 2017 Houston Worldfest and Best Short at Movies4Movies 2017 Film Festival. Screened at The Producers Club, January 2017, Cannes Short Film Corner, May 2017, Garden State Film Festival, April 2017, New York City Independent Film Festival, April 2016, New York Filmmakers Showcase, March 2016, Anthology Film Archives, January 2016.
Made • Story Producer • MTV reality docu-series • 60 minutes • 2013
The Flea Theater: A Portrait • Producer/Director/DP • aired on PBS • 30 min documentary
Hotel Bleu • Screenwriter • feature screenplay • 2013 - 2014 • selected for the 2013 Maision Des Scenaristes at Cannes Film Festival
Suzanne Bartsch, Queen of the Night • Producer/Director • documentary aired German TV • 2003
Bertolucci In The Bronx • Co-Producer/Cinematographer • 60 minutes documentary • 1999
Cross-eyed • Screenwriter • feature fllm shot in NYC. 1999
Unmade Beds • Associate Producer • Associate Producer • feature documentary • Chelsea Pictures & BBC2 • 1998
They Came For Good • PBS • 60 minute documentary • 1997
The Eroticism of Success • Cinematographer • 60 minute documentary commissioned by WDR • 1996
Let’s Go Bowling • Writer, Director • short 16mm narrative • 1995 • Screened at New Orleans Film Festival, Upsalla International Film Festival, Les Recontres Cinematographiques des Film du Cirque, France.
Angesichts der Wälder (Facing the Forest) • Assistant to the Producer • narrative feature film • 1993-1994
Wasserman • Assistant to the Producer • Israeli/German television film • 1993-1994
Every Mistake Is A New Style • Filmmaker (Writer, Director) • short 16mm narrative • 1991
Raw Zones • Video Artist (Writer, Director, Camera) • 3 channel video installation at P.S.1, NYC • 1987
All Exits Final • Video Artist (Writer, Director, Editor, Camera) • experimental video • World Wide Video Festival, Toronto • 1984
Photography Exhibits & Publications
Exhibited in two group exhibits at Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York City in June 2022 and December 2022.
Landscape series received honorable mention at the 2020 and 2021 Julia Cameron Competition. Exhibited at the FotoNostum Third Barcelona Foto Biennale in Barcelona, Spain in October 2022.
Portrait of Jean Michel Basquiat was selected by juror, Coco Conroy, for the “Open Exhibition” January 7 - 29, 2022, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC.
Photographs selected for inclusion in the following juried group photography exhibits at PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont:
“In Celebration Of Trees” - June 25 - July 16, 2021, juried by Catherine Courturier
“Composed” - May 28 - June 18, 2021, juried by Jeff Curto
Portals, Windows and Doors” - November 26-December 26, 2020, juried by Elizabeth Avedon
City Primeval: New York, Berlin, Prague • November 10, 2017 book release
• A photographic journey through the zeitgeist of art and culture in NYC, Berlin and Prague from the 1970s to present.
Contributed an essay; "A Natives View" accompanied with photographs of Iggy Pop, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Wim Wenders amongst others who shaped the spirit of the time.