Veteran Film Maker Oren Jacoby, Delighted by First Academy Award Nomination, Is Working on a New project

Veteran Film Maker Oren Jacoby, Delighted by First Academy Award Nomination, Is Working on a New project

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Oren Jacoby, the New York film maker whose "Sister Rose's Passion" has been nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject today expressed delight and determination to continue to take on challenging documentary subjects.

"This Academy Award nomination crowns the efforts of Steve Kalafer, Peter LeDonne and Kellie Pyffer and a number of other people directly and importantly involved with 'Sister Rose's Passion.' Most important, it recognizes the life work of Sister Rose Thering herself."

"The awards ceremony on Feb. 27th happens to fall on my birthday -- so, I'm hoping for the best," Jacoby commented. "But I think this would have made my father, Irving Jacoby, happy -- he was nominated in this same category 46 years ago. I'm also very grateful for all the support I've gotten from talented mentors and colleagues over my fifteen years in this field," Jacoby said. "I'm committed to continue to try and produce the best films I can and am very happy to be working, now, on another provocative and dramatic documentary," he added.

Jacoby said his current project is based on the book "Constantine's Sword" by James Carroll, "the moving story of one Christian's odyssey of discovery - of his own and his Church's complicity in history's most lethal hatred. A saga crossing 20 centuries and the length of one man's life."

Sister Rose's Passion, with Run time of 38 minutes 49 second, describes the largely thankless, often resisted lifelong crusade by a Catholic nun -- Sister Rose Thering - to challenge the doctrine that blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus. She played a key role in Vatican II, which officially changed the church's position on their relationship with the Jewish people. This documentary follows Sister Rose, today, at age 84, as she continues to fight against religious intolerance.


Source: Storyville Films

CONTACT: Oren Jacoby of Storyville Films, +1-212-397-2860, ODRJ@AOL.com;
or Tim Metz, tim@hmcllc.com, or Susan Hullin, both of Hullin Metz & Co.,
+1-212-752-1044, for Storyville Films


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