Oren Jacoby is a director and producer of documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

s, including Constantine's Sword

Constantine's Sword (film)

James Carroll's Constantine's Sword, or Constantine's Sword, is a 2007 historical documentary film on the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jews. Directed and produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Jacoby, the film is inspired by former priest James P...

(2008), "Sister Rose's Passion

Sister Rose's Passion

"Sister Rose's Passion" is a 2004 short documentary film directed by Oren Jacoby. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and won the Best Documentary Short Award at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival....

" (2005), The Shakespeare Sessions (2003), Stage on Screen

Stage on Screen

Not to be confused with , the London-based company producing DVD versions of classic stage plays and which has produced commercial DVDs of Doctor Faustus , The School for Scandal , Volpone and The Duchess of Malfi ....

: The Topdog Diaries (2002), The Beatles Revolution (2000), and Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...

: Stalking Himself (1998). He was a co-producer of the PBS series The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (1998).

Jacoby was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for "Sister Rose's Passion" which also won Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

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