Oren Jacoby

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Oren Jacoby is a director and producer of documentary films.

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Life and career

Jacoby was educated at Brown University and Yale University. [1] He has been an independent filmmaker since 1992, [2] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2005 for Sister Rose's Passion, which also won Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.[ citation needed ]

In September 2014, he released My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes , a feature-length documentary about unsung heroes in World War II Italy. Jacoby’s stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was produced in Washington and Boston in 2012–13. It won a Jefferson Award for best New Play adaptation and 4 Helen Hayes Awards in 2013.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Personal life

He is married to fellow documentary filmmaker Betsy West.

References

  1. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/oren-jacoby/6/9b3/7b7 [ self-published source ]
  2. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/oren-jacoby/6/9b3/7b7 [ self-published source ]
  3. Luers, Erik (2017-11-30). ""If You Were a Real Filmmaker, You'd Have a Fancier Camera": Oren Jacoby on Shadowman". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2025-08-31.
  4. "The Power of Invisibility, or How to Play the Long Game as a Documentary Filmmaker". Talkhouse. Retrieved 2025-08-31.
  5. Smith, Paul Art (2021-09-14). "On Broadway, a New Documentary Chronicling Broadway through the Years". Broadway Direct. Retrieved 2025-08-31.
  6. "Telluride Review: This is Not a Drill Offers a Sharp Highlight of Climate Activists Who Still Fight". 2025-08-30. Retrieved 2025-08-31.