Jacob Pincus
Directing
Biography
Jacob Pincus is a filmmaker, artist, and organizer living in Los Angeles, CA. After dropping out of USC film school, Pincus began working on his first feature documentary, I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Here, about a road trip through Northern Romania with his dear friend in search of her lost family history. Pincus owns Cove Films, a film production company, and is the executive director of Our Art Fund Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding artists and their work. When not filmmaking, Pincus serves as the Assistant Producer at New Theater Hollywood, presenting various forms of live performance work with renowned artists and theatermakers from around the world. He recently served as the Assistant Director for an original play that world premiered at the REDCAT theater in L.A. and was the DoP for a video-art installation commissioned by Kunsthalle Basel.
Known For
A self-alienated high schooler ditches prom for his usual routine of bar-hopping and debauchery before being humbled by a string of disasters.
Welcome Back Lounge
A young actress' insecurity turns to obsession when an identical applicant arrives at her callback audition.
Soliloquy
After being discharged from the hospital, an ill, young man journeys aimlessly by train as he struggles to find human connection in his empty world, despite the painful cost.
Last Stop
Mima, an American college student, embarks on a road trip to the rural Romanian village where her grandmother, Esther, was born. Her friend Jacob, a recent film-school dropout, joins her in the old country, along with an 18-year-old translator whom she found on Facebook. Decades after Esther’s death, Mima relies on her grandmother’s unmarked photos of the village and recorded oral history to orient herself in the remote area. As the trio scale walls and trek through fields searching for any evidence of Esther’s life in Romania, the deeper unknowns animating Mima's journey begin to reveal themselves.
I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here
A cam model navigates an encounter with a repeat client who attempts to break through the rules of their relationship.
Labor of Love
Three days after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, thousands of people in Pittsburgh came together to protest the hate and violence in the country. “Stronger than Steel” explores that even after tragedy, there is hope in this divided nation.
Stronger than Steel
After nearly fifty years in a building built by Holocaust Survivors, members in a synagogue reflect on their congregation's history and how they have come to need a new house of prayer.
Make Me A Sanctuary
A couple has conflicting conceptions about how acceptable it is to poop in front of each other.