Robert Jacobs

When a lonely young boy named Angus discovers a large, mysterious egg along the shores of Loch Ness, no one is prepared for what lies within. He soon discovers that the strange, mischievous hatchling inside is none other than The Water Horse, the loch's most mysterious and fabled creature! But with the Water Horse growing ten times its size every day, Angus finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new friend a secret. Two-time Academy Award(r) nominee Emily Watson (1998, Hilary and Jackie; 1996 Breaking the Waves), Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line), David Morrissey (The Reaping) and Brian Cox (Running with Scissors) star in this heart warming tale from director Jay Russell (Tuck Everlasting) and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs (Flushed Away).

March 23: Retired Army Colonel and NBC military analyst Jack Jacobs examines the concerns set forth by the attorney for Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier who was charged Friday with 17 counts of murder.

Directors on Directing -- A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.Candied interviews with some of the top Black Directors in the business, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Robert Townsend, Bill Duke, Fred Williamson, Melvin Van Peebles and other industry leaders. Seven Lights Productions and Actor and film maker Lord Jamel Wade team up to produce this documentary which examines the art of Directing, the Black pioneers of film making, the industry in Hollywood, the digital technology and President Barack Obama.

Ephemerals -- www.andrezuniga.com Ephemerals belongs to the City Symphony genre.. I love to find beauty in environments created by humans, in all their greatness and misery, from the perfection of a skyscraper silhouette to the distortions that we find in reflections or to the misery of a trash dump. I try to show the movement of the city from the perspective of the ephemeral subject. This means that I have to find unique locations that show the city by reflecting the city itself on their surfaces. These surfaces are never stable, they change continuously. The shots vary depending on the amount of light they receive and on the place where the ephemeral observer is located. This kind of work is deeply influenced by the work of artists I admire. For instance Dziga Vertov Symphony, Walter Ruttmann, Joris Ivens and early American works like the ones found in the Unseen Cinema: Picturing a Metropolis - NYC unveiled, Manhatta (1921) by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, Twenty-four-Dollar Island (1927) by Robert Flaherty,A Bronx Morning (1931by Jay Leyda,Footnote to Fact (1933)by Lewis Jacobs,The Pursuit of Happiness (1940) by Rudy Burckhardt and Skyscraper Symphony (1929) by Robert Florey. In these films the camera work is different from the camera work in narrative cinema since the director has broader options for camera work that expand his possibilities. Also a big influence has been youtube.com and archive.org . In these websites I have found many movies about the city experience from anonymous filmmakers and videomakers from all times and from all countries in the world, specially from Peru. I have been working with Peruvian musician and friend Tomas Tello (www.andesground.com). His music has been a great complement and influence in my art.