Filmmaker Nora Jacobson started Off The Grid Productions in 1995, in a quonset hut located at the delta of two rivers in the State of Vermont, USA. Watch Nora's reel which shows clips from her three films: Nothing Like Dreaming, My Mother’s Early Lovers, and Delivered Vacant.

Delivered Vacant (Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival), is about housing issues, real estate and gentrification in Hoboken, New Jersey; My Mother's Early Lovers (Austin Film Festival, New Haven Film Fest, Method FilmFest), is a family drama about inter-generational abuse, utopian life styles and healing; Nothing Like Dreaming (Best in Fest, Lake Placid Film Festival, Northampton Independent Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, Hearts & Minds Film Festival)  is about teenagers, mental illness, creativity and the sound of fire set in rural Vermont; Sun and Moon Were Children and Lived on the Earth (Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine), is based on a Zapotec creation myth, and Habits & Choices: Living with HIV (National Educational Film and Video festival), is about addicts and HIV.

Current Productions:
We are in pre-production on a new feature film starring Amy Irving called “The Hanji Box “ a love story about art and international adoption in Korea. We are partnering with Fire Circle Films on this project.

We are making a documentary about pond hockey.

We are producing a collaborative documentary about the history of activism and independence in Vermont.

We are in post-production on an experimental dramatic film about a man struggling to cope with the loss of his young wife to breast cancer.