Nora Jacobson
BREAKING NEWS... Off The Grid Productions has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Media Development grant. Read more here.
Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
at the Bellows Falls Opera House!
SCREENINGS
A unique filmmaking experience. The first collaborative film
about a state!
All 6 parts shown on 3 consecutive Sundays with the filmmakers
in attendance!
Sunday Jan. 26
A Very New Idea (Part 1): 2-3:25, Q&A 3:25-3:40,
Under The Surface (Part 2): 3:45-5:10, Q&A 5:10-5:25
Sunday Feb. 2
Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution (Part 3) 2:15-3:35
Doers and Shapers (Part 4) 3:40-5:00, Q&A 5:05-5:25.
Sunday Feb. 9
Ceres' Children (Part 5) 2:15-3:35
People's Power (Part 6) 3:40-5:00, Q&A 5:05-5:25.
To learn more about this film, go to:
www.thevermontmovie.com
For info about ticketing:
Click here for a list of live SCREENINGS
and the NATIONAL BROADCAST of
"Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind":
https://www.offthegridproductions.com/ruth-stones-screenings/
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

In Development




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.