YOUNG JACOB

1. The Proudest Rose

FORMAT: SHORT FILM | GENRE: DRAMA | DURATION: 12.46 minutes

After the loss of her father, Jess works away in her
garden, while searching for connection and recovery.
But she has to fight to hold herself together as the
people she wants to rely on are absent.

Starring Florence Bell as Jess, Cora Kirk as Beth and Simon Kunz as Jess’ Dad.

This is the first official narrative short film by Joshua Jacob and Giorgia Young.

Available soon

2. Picture of Calvin

Film by: Young Jacob

Director: Giorgia Young
Co-Director: Joshua Jacob
Director of Photography: Dominic John
First Camera Assistant: Matilda Davy & Lewis Watts
Producer: Sam Johnson & Giorgia Young
Production: Visuals Team
Edited by: Giorgia young & Izzie Larché
Sound: Brother Music
Sound Design: Patrick Lee
Graphics: Scoundrel Labs
Graphic Designer: Maddi Jackson

This short experimental documentary explores Calvin Plazzatto’s relationship with community and running. Filmed over a few winter evenings in Peckham we look at how living in a city like London can mak eyou feel disconnected from yourself and how movement and shared experiences can bring you back together. I’m very proud of this I hope you can tell. Picture of Calvin is a short experimental doc that was born from a post @calvnism shared about his personal journey as a runner. Coupled with fact that running is one of the few free activities you can do in London all year round it’s remained a way that people can find community, connection and learn more about themselves the world over. Once we’ve grown up, the opportunities to physically push ourselves become fewer, unrelated to economic or structural gains, we stop putting ourselves in new or unfamiliar situations and we start to settle in bar for a few mid & quarter life crises. Settling in isn’t bad but we change over time, we gotta keep testing ourselves and the way we do things.

Anyway what am I saying? I’m saying I saw for a moment- be it temporary or long term- that Calvin was enjoying this very thing, meeting new people, engaging in a growing community, pushing himself and understanding a bit more about himself through running. It’s not the only reason but that’s what I saw and I liked it, so we made a short documentary about it. That’s all there is to it.

Available here