Nora Jacobson
BREAKING NEWS... FREEDOM & UNITY: THE VERMONT MOVIE TO BE BROADCAST NATIONALLY IN NOVEMBER 2025!
Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie
has just been accepted for National Broadcast!
Completed in 2014, it has never been more timely!
The first collaborative film about a state will start airing
in early November 2025.
Stay tuned for more information!
We are busy working on a sequel: Vermont in 2025! What has changed? What is new? Send your ideas to info@offthegridproductions.com
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.