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Oren Jacoby
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Title/Occupation:  Director 
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: English, French, Russian

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Jacoby makes documentaries focusing on stories of outstanding individual courage. They have premiered on the BBC, HBO, PBS, ABC, Discovery, VH1 and others; and on DVD from Sony, First Run Features, Wellspring, Image, Disney and New Video.

Biography: Oren Jacoby is an Oscar® nominated filmmaker who has written, directed, and produced award-winning films for two decades. His work has been recognized by the American Film Institute, The Sundance Institute and Britain’s Royal Television Society. His latest feature–length documentary, Constantine’s Sword, based on the best seller by National Book Award winning author, James Carroll, had a nation-wide theatrical release that began with a two month New York run. His film, “Sister Rose’s Passion”, was winner of Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award®. He is now in production on The Lost Hero, about the Marquis de Lafayette and his quest to bring democracy to America and France. Credits include: “The Last Girl on Earth”, a short drama and “Downtown Stories”, both commissioned by the Tribeca Film Festival; “The Topdog Diaries” with the 2002 Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, and performances by Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright; “The Shakespeare Sessions” starring Kevin Kline, Cynthia Nixon, Liev Schreiber, and Charles S. Dutton; “The Beatles Revolution”, a TV special for ABC and VH-1, “Swingin’ with Duke”, ”Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself”; “Master Thief” on the ‘art heist of the century’; and “Success” for the Emmy award-winning PBS series, The Irish in America. Jacoby also wrote, produced and directed “The Return Ticket”, adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov; “Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing” for American Masters; and with Brian Lapping Associates, “The Second Russian Revolution”, a behind the scenes investigation of the collapse of the USSR, called ‘the best BBC series of the decade’ by the London Independent. Jacoby has directed plays at Theater for the New City, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, the West Bank Café and regional theaters. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Directing Program of the Yale School of Drama and lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.