In the ’90s, Sarah Jacobson was a rising indie filmmaker. Beginning with her half-hour short film I Was A Teenage Serial Killer in 1993, she garnered enough underground critical success to make her feature debut, Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore, a coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl’s loss of virginity and her friends’ experiences with their first times. Jacobson was set to move on to bigger films, but she sadly passed away from endometrial cancer at age 32 in 2004. To carry on her life’s work and support for fellow filmmakers, Jacobson’s mother and film producer Ruth Jacobson and […]
by Melissa Silvestri on Nov 11, 2010We were sad to receive this note from Ed Halter today about the filmmaker Sarah Jacobson: “As many of you know, Sarah Jacobson was battling terminal cancer for the past half a year or so. Well, I’m sorry to report that last night she passed away. Because Sarah knew so many film people, I’m helping her family spread the word about two memorial events happening this week in her memory. On Monday, February 16th, at 3pm, there will be a memorial service for Sarah at the synagogue on 17th Street between 2nd and 3rd street in Manhattan. (Sorry, I don’t […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 15, 2004