AZAZEL JACOBS- BIO ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, Aza was born and raised in downtown Manhattan and came of age surrounded by innovative and important artists. He began his study of narrative films at New York's SUNY Purchase film department - spawning ground of Hal Hartley and Nick Gomez among others.

    Aza's thesis film, "Kirk and Kerry", was shown at many festivals and won him the Best Short Film Award at the Slamdance festival in 1997. "Kirk and Kerry" was recently purchased by the New York Public Library's Donnell Media Center for its' permanent collection after the library hosted a showcase series entitled "The Flying Jacobs Family," a mini-retrospective of films by his father Ken, Aza, and his sister, Nisi. During the writing of "Nobody Needs to Know", Aza was accepted to the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where he earned a masters degree in directing in 2001.

He is currently working on a film about a young couples drive from New York to Los Angeles in which they find out rebellion can become really expensive. The film is being produced by Alexandra Rose and Dave G.

ABOUT NOBODY

Feeling that I could not tell a better story then Fellini, make a record better then the Clash's Sandinista, or express myself with more clarity then Lenny Bruce, I set out to combine these beloved influences in hope that there meeting would spark something new.

Coming from a family so uncompromising in their own avant-garde work, simply using professional actors was delving into testy waters, even synch sound was risky.

   

With a soundtrack of almost all Brooklyn based roots reggae and many shots of the now suddenly old New York City, this movie is surely a moody love letter of sorts to an island in the midst of its own experiment.

It was shot in black and white to most clearly illustrates the line I am hoping to balance on; The high drama of films from the thirties and contemporary ubiquitous covert surveillance; and an attempt to find the ordinary in high drama and vice versa.