Films with a focus on the arts, environment and social justice
Hal Jacobs brings a career in freelance writing and developing written and video resources for higher education into film work that focuses on arts, social justice and the environment. He lives in Decatur, Georgia, with his wife, Alicia Macbeth Jacobs, a former elementary school librarian and executive producer for film projects.
Henry Jacobs is a photographer, filmmaker and musician. He is also deputy director for Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and in 2020 was named to Georgia Trend magazine’s “40 Under 40” list. He lives outside LaGrange, Georgia, with his wife, Robin, who is a Nurse RN, BSN.
Both Hal and Henry are Fellows of the Hambidge Center for the Arts & Sciences.
SELECTED AWARDS/RECOGNITION
2024 Georgia Public Broadcasting airs Mary Hambidge, Lillian Smith, Saving the Chattahoochee & Common Good Atlanta (2023)
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
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
Shiloh-Rosenwald School (Notasulga, Ala.)
Staibdance
Step Ahead Scholars
The Nature Conservancy
Troup-Harris Library System
West Georgia Hospice
Zion Church Restoration (Talbotton, Ga.)