Jacob Bricca
110 Livingston St. #C4
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 782-9534
FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR
• “Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore”, 2006
• “Homeland” (experimental short), 2003
• Winner, Director's Choice Award, Black Maria Film Festival. (This is a traveling film festival
with over 60 screening dates nationwide.)
• Official Selection, Microcinema International’s “Up In Smoke” traveling festival, including
screenings at the Galeria Sztuki Wspøotczesnej in Krakow, Polandand at Neuer Standort
in Vienna, Austria.
• Official Selection, Mill Valley Film Festival
• Official Selection, Brooklyn International Film Festival
• Official Selection, Woods Hole Film Festival
• Screened at The American Cinematheque in Los Angles, Sept. 2003
• "What A Girl Wants" (documentary short), 2000 (Co-Director, Editor)
• Used in high school classrooms nationwide, this half hour documentary about the media’s
impact on teenage girls’ self esteem is distributed by Media Education Foundation as a
companion volume to the video version of “Reviving Ophelia.”
• Official Selection, Slamdance Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Docside Film
Festival, Guerrilla Film Festival.
• "All Of It" (documentary short), 1996
• "All Of It" is a short "experimental documentary" combining found footage and verité
documentary material into an affecting statement about the power of media images.
• Silver Hugo (top prize), Editing category, Chicago International Film and Video Festival.
• Grand Prize, Trimmer’s Rock Film and Video Festival.
• 2nd Place, Documentary category, Central Florida Film and Video Festival.
• Official Selection, San Francisco Film Arts Festival, Berkeley Video Festival, Big Muddy
Film Festival, Solstice Film Festival.
• "Angora Lake, June 23, 1995” (experimental short), 1997
• "Angora Lake" is a short experimental film composed of slow-motion images of water
patterns and moving shadows, set to music.
• Official Selection, Solstice Film Festival.
• "Nothing" (documentary short), 1994
• Shot at a half-dozen Lollapalooza rock concerts around the country, this short documentary
questions whether the Gen X "slacker" stereotype is a pose or a real expression of despair.
• "Escape From America" (documentary short), 1993
• "Escape From America" is a documentary short about an American who travels to Spain in
search of "authentic" culture, only to find icons from his native land celebrated and exoticized.
• First Place, International category, Hometown Video Festival.
Jacob Bricca
110 Livingston St. #C4
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 782-9534
FILMOGRAPHY
EDITOR
• “Tell Me Do You Miss Me” (feature documentary),2006
• A meditation on music, fame, and middle age, this feature documentary is the story of the
breakup of the popular New York City band Luna. To be released on DVD by Rhino Home Video,
it will have its theatrical premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, 2006.
• "The Kentucky Theatre" (documentary short), 2003 (co-editor)
• This half-hour documentary about a historic Lexington movie palace premiered on Kentucky
Public Television in October 2003.
• “Lost in La Mancha” (feature documentary), 2002
• This feature documentary was widely hailed by critics as one of the best documentaries of 2003,
and took in over $700,000 at the box office domestically .
• Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival.
• Winner of The Peter Sellers Award for Best Comedy, given by The Evening Standard (London).
• “Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew” (feature documentary), 2002
• This feature documentary aired on PBS's Independent Lens in February 2004 and won the
Audience Award for best film of the series.
• Winner, Audience Award, 2002 Atlanta Film Festival.
• "Beyond The Border” (feature documentary), 2000
• "Beyond The Border" is a television documentary about a Mexican family torn
between its roots and the promise of a better life in America.
• Acquired by PBS for selective national broadcast, it first aired in February 2002.
• “Tree Media Shorts” (series of documentary shorts), 2000
• Featuring jazz singer Jimmy Scott, Dean Wareham of Luna , and Daniel Johnston.
• Dean Wareham and Daniel Johnston shorts featured in the April 2001 Circuit DVD magazine.
• "Dreamer"(narrative short), 1999
• "Dreamer" is a 35mm film short about a Native American man's dream of the future.
• Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival.
• “Max, 13” (narrative feature), 1998
• "Max, 13," is a 16mm narrative feature about a 13 year-old boy's summer vacation. Shot in rural
Northern California locations with all non-actors, it was inspired by Italian Neo-Realist cinema.
• Official Selection, Wine Country Film Festival.