Short

00:09:41

United Kingdom

Ray Jacobs

Synopsis:

A group of climate refugees, most of whom have disabilities, have made a home of an abandoned house.

They live, cook, laugh, cry, eat, dance and work the land together, feeling like a family while feeling vulnerable to the hostile outside climate.

A wild storm arrives and one of the group has to leave.

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

Ray Jacobs is a UK based artist who uses the mediums of image, film and movement to highlight the beauty, power, magic and presence in the stories that surround us and are within us.
Ray is a director and facilitator, creating imaginative and powerful works with a wide variety of companies, in particular collaborating with disabled artists.
Rays background is in dance and performance, trauma from a hereditary heart condition in his thirties led him to begin creating work away from the stage and create visual stories on film.
Recent multi award winning short films include ‘The Sea Reminds Me’, ‘Bastion’, Four Solos in the Wild, Your Rocky Spine, The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot, The Secret Life of Astrid North

Filmography and selected awards

The Sea Reminds Me (2012) – Director
Awarded Best Film – Ablevision Ireland
Most Original Film- Oska Bright Film Festival. .
Audience Award – Premio Cinematografico Fausto Rossano, Italy

Bastion (2014) – Director (www.bastionfilm.com)
Best Film – Meeting Rimini Film Festival, Italy 2014
Best Male Actor (James Doolan) – 7th International Breaking Down Barriers Festival, Moscow 2014
Best in the Fest – Super Fest – California, USA 2015
Grand Prix Du Jury – Entre ‘2 Marches, Cannes Film Festival 2016

Four Solos in the Wild (2016) Director (www.solointhewild.com)
Creativity Award Fiver dance screen festival, Spain
Best Choreography – Oska Bright Film Festival
Best Dance Film – SDSUMF Festival Australia

Your Rocky Spine 2019
Honourable mention - Picture This Film Festival Calgary, Canada.

The Secret Life of Tom Lightfoot (2021)
Best Narrative Fiction – Ealing film Festival UK
Best Narrative Fiction – Big Syn Film Fest, London UK
Best Short film – Secindi Film Festival, Italy
Best Short film – Swedish international Film Festival
Best Short Fiction – Cinema Touching Disability, Texas USA
Best Fiction – Scorpious Fest , Utah, USA
Best fiction – Ridgway film Fest, Colorado
Best Short Fiction – RAGFF, Cairo , Egypt

The Secret Life of Astrid North (2022)
Best Short Film – London Film Fete, Odeon Cinema , Leicester Square, London, UK
Best Film – Lived Perspectives Film Festival , Chichester, UK
Best Narrative Fiction - Big Syn Festival 2024

Show of work incorporating – Bastion, The Sea Reminds Me, Four Solos in the Wild, Tate Modern, London, March 2017.

2019 - Outstanding contribution to Cinema Award - Oska Bright Film Festival