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Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Airs on PBS September 13th
The Constitution Project honored
Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause wins CINE Masters Series Award. Yick Wo also won a Platinum Hermes Creative Award, a Silver Hugo Award, and two Telly Awards; Korematsu and Civil Liberties receives Gold Hermes Creative Award (AMCP)
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Director / Producer / Writer
Oren Jacoby is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who has written, directed and produced award-winning films for two decades. He is now working on his first project with The Documentary Group, The Lost Hero, about the Marquis de Lafayette and his quest to bring democracy to America and France.
Oren’s work has been recognized by the American Film Institute, ITVS and Britain’s Royal Television Society. His films have been presented by HBO, Cinemax, ABC, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, VH-1, NHK (Japan), Nokia, Verizon and Human Rights Watch. His latest feature–length documentary, Constantine’s Sword, based on the best seller by National Book Award winning author, James Carroll, has had a nation-wide theatrical release. His film, Sister Rose’s Passion, was winner of Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. Other credits include: The Last Girl on Earth, a short drama and Downtown Stories, both commissioned by the Tribeca Film Festival; The Topdog Diaries with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, and performances by Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright; The Shakespeare Sessions starring Kevin Kline, Cynthia Nixon, Liev Schreiber, and Charles S. Dutton; The Beatles Revolution, a TV special for ABC and VH-1; Swinging’ with Duke, starring Wynton Marsalis; Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself; Master Thief, an ABC prime-time special on the “art heist of the century”; and Success for the Emmy award-winning PBS series, The Irish in America.
Oren also wrote, produced and directed The Return Ticket, adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov;Ghosts of the Bayou; Idols of the Game, featuring Michael Jordan; Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing for American Masters; and with Brian Lapping Associates, The Second Russian Revolution, a behind the scenes investigation of Gorbachev’s reforms and the ensuing collapse of the USSR, called ‘the best BBC series of the decade’ by the London Independent.
Oren has directed plays at Theater for the New City, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, the West Bank Café and regional theaters. His stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was performed in a reading at the 2004 Tribeca Theater Festival, in a co-production with the Classical Theater of Harlem.
He is a graduate of Brown University and the Directing Program of the Yale School of Drama and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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