Films with a focus on the arts, environment and social justice
Since 2014, Hal Jacobs has produced five feature-length, Georgia-based documentaries and numerous short docs, most of which have been broadcast on Georgia public television stations and screened in theaters, libraries, classrooms and film festivals. “Lo-fi, thoughtful boutique affairs that keep it local while exploring big ideas,” in the words of Candice Dyer for the Atlanta Constitution.
Hal with Sarah Higinbotham, co-founder of Common Good Atlanta
SELECTED AWARDS/RECOGNITION
2024 Georgia Public Broadcasting airs Mary Hambidge, Lillian Smith, Saving the Chattahoochee & Common Good Atlanta
Georgia Humanities Grantee (Lillian Smith, Common Good Atlanta, Northside Tavern, Saving the Chattahoochee)
Georgia Music Foundation Grantee (Northside Tavern)
2023 WABE “Atlanta on Film” Broadcast (Lillian Smith, Common Good Atlanta)
2023 Top 10 films, Global Feminine Film Festival (Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence & Common Good Atlanta)
2021 Jack Spadaro Documentary Award, Appalachian Studies Association (Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence)
2020 Best Full-Length Documentary, Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival (Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence)
2020 “Best Georgia Made,” Macon Film Festival (Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence)
2019 Georgia Center for the Book Award of Recognition (Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence)
2017 Best Documentary, Southern Shorts Awards (Mary Crovatt Hambidge)
SELECTED MEDIA
Shooting Georgia, Holyn Thigpen, ArtsAtl, May 2, 2024.
BLUES & BEYOND: Documenting Atlanta Blues, Hal Horowitz, Creative Loafing, December 1, 2022
Radio interview on WABE’s “City Lights” with Lois Reitzes, September 19, 2022
Channel 11 news coverage of screening held at Plaza Theater on May 18, 2022
Documenting Good, Ray Glier, Georgia State University Magazine, February 2022
Hal Jacobs (Producer/Director): Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | IMDb | haljacobs@gmail.com
Henry Jacobs (Co-producer): Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | hjacobs44@gmail.com
Joe Boris (Co-producer): Homepage | Instagram | joe@borisphotography.com
Client List
Atlanta Music Festival
Carlos Museum of Emory University
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy
Common Good Atlanta
Emory Dance Company
Fayette County Library
First Congregational Church of Atlanta
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Georgia Humanities
Georgia State University
Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)
Georgia Water Coalition
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Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences
Latin American Association
Modern Atlanta Dance Festival
Meridian Herald
Paddle4Tomorrow
Shiloh-Rosenwald School (Notasulga, Ala.)
Staibdance
Step Ahead Scholars
The Nature Conservancy
Troup-Harris Library System
West Georgia Hospice
Zion Church Restoration (Talbotton, Ga.)
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