BARLOW JACOBS — excurricular

Barlow Jacobs is a writer, director, and actor who started his career by co-writing, producing and starring in the feature LOW AND BEHOLD which premiered at Sundance in 2007. The film went on to win nine festival awards, five for Best Narrative. The Huffington Post called it “a daring work of film-making” and The Atlantic wrote that it was “one of those rare commercial films about a large-scale tragedy that manages to express something true and meaningful.” Barlow has gone on to work with an extraordinary group of filmmakers throughout his career, including Jeff Nichols, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lowery, Ry Russo-Young, Craig Zobel, Joe Swanberg, Michael Almereyda, and Scott Teems. Barlow wrote and directed the experimental short film PERMANENT SKINS. The film explores the interior and exterior sensory experience of a child's rite of passage at an all-boys summer camp. It wowed audiences for its unique storytelling style and technical achievement. Most recently Barlow Executive Produced DAVYEON, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for two 2018 Independent Spirit Awards in 2018. Barlow is currently in production on an experimental documentary that he is directing called BELOW THE DROP. The film is a meditation on death through hunting.