Issue 12 : Spring 2007

FRONT PAGE

• Welcome

INTERVIEW

• Who is Bozo Texino: a Search with Bill Daniel
  — Peggy Nelson

• Dialogue with Susan Greene on “Break the Silence”
  — Molly Hankwitz

OPINION & REVIEW

• Lynne Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture: a Tapestry of Dilemmas
  — Mike Mosher

ARTIST PROJECTS

• Dr Yes and the Mystery of the Mission
  — David Cox

ACTUALITY

• About the Sarah Jacobson Film Grant
  — Sam Green

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• Interview with Lutz Dammbeck
  — Helmut Merschmann

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About the Sarah Jacobson Film Grant

by Sam Green

14 Feb 2007

This annual film grant is intended to honor the spirit and legacy of Sarah Jacobson. Sarah, whose feature film Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore screened at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, died in 2004 after a battle with cancer. Sarah led a DIY (“Do It Yourself”) movement in the 1990s, promoting and distributing her own work with her producer and mom, Ruth Ellen Jacobson, speaking at festivals and events everywhere, and writing about film for a number of publications. A tireless, at times even shameless, promoter of her own work, Sarah was also a passionate advocate for the films of fellow filmmakers.

The Free History Project, Ruth Jacobson (Sarah’s mom), and a number of Sarah’s friends have contributed money in order to give out a small annual grant to one or more female filmmakers whose work embodies some of the things that Sarah stood for: a fierce DIY approach to filmmaking, a radical social critique, and a thoroughly underground sensibility.

We will be giving out the 3rd annual Sarah Jacobson Film Grant in the spring of 2007.

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