Bethany Jacobson
Adjunct
Bethany Jacobson began her career as a photographer and video artist. Her photographs of Wim Wenders, Iggy Pop, and Jean Michel Basquiat, amongst others were published in Blitz, Harpers Bazaar, Tatler, Cover and House & Garden. After completing NYU’s graduate film program in the 1990s, she worked on indie features, documentaries, and television series, which have aired on PBS, MTV, BBC and WDR. In 2009, her documentary The Flea Theater: A Portrait aired on PBS, featuring interviews with Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver. Her short film, Hotel Bleu, which she wrote, directed, and produced, stars Julie Halston and jazz trumpeter, Wayne Tucker. It won Best Live Action International Short Film at the 2016 Louisiana International Film Festival, a 2017 Remy Award at Houston WorldFest and screened at the 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner. Her feature screenplay, The Electric Virgin, was a finalist for the 2017 Tribeca Sloan Foundation Filmmaker Fund and was one of twenty projects selected for the 2017 Cannes Maison Des Scenaristes. The Electric Virgin -production, and set to be filmed in New York City in Fall 2020. Bethany has taught screenwriting and filmmaking courses at Pratt Institute, Long Island University, NYU’s Graduate Film Program and was an Assistant Professor at La Guardia Community College from 2013-2018. She currently teaches film courses at Borough of Manhattan Community College and Brooklyn College.
