Will Jacobs
Actor/Writer/Director
Will Jacobs
Actor/Writer/Director
A soldier of cinema.
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Company
Mourning Dove Films
Illinoisan artist Will Jacobs is known for his performance in Denouement (2017), which won Best Actor in a Dramatic Short at the Illinois International Film Festival in 2018 (selected out of 600 submissions). He is a graduate of The Second City's Improv Program in Chicago.
Will's short film, Animal (2014), was accepted out of 400 submissions and screened at the Chicago International Film Festival's 11th Annual CineYouth Festival. Animal (2014) was also shown at the 2015 Short Screens film festival in Brussels. Both of Will's short films, After (2015) and Lesser of Two Evils (2014), aired on cable network WTVP's "The Screening Room" in 2016.
Will is also the founder of the independent film production company, Mourning Dove Films.
Filmography
  • Acting (3 Credits)
    Will Spring Forgive?2018
    Short
    Denouement2017
    Short
    Trees Are Angels2017
    Short
  • Producer (3 Credits)
    Will Spring Forgive?2018
    Short
    Denouement2017
    Short
    Trees Are Angels2017
    Short
  • Writer (3 Credits)
    Will Spring Forgive?2018
    Short
    Denouement2017
    Short
    Trees Are Angels2017
    Short
  • Director (3 Credits)
    Will Spring Forgive?2018
    Short
    Denouement2017
    Short
    Trees Are Angels2017
    Short
4 Awards & Selections
Official Selection
Will Spring Forgive?
Big Picture Peoria Film Festival
Peoria, IL
2019
Official Selection
Trees Are Angels
Big Picture Peoria Film Festival
Peoria, IL
2018
Top 3 Films
Trees Are Angels
Illinois Central College Film Festival
Peoria, IL
2018
Best Actor in a Dramatic Short 2018
Denouement
Illinois International Film Festival
Aurora, IL
2018
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Education
College
Illinois Central College
Associates in Arts
2015 – 2020
High School
Metamora Township High School
2011 – 2015
Personal Details
Birth Date
September 2, 1996
Birth City
Bloomington, IL
Current City
Peoria, IL
Hometown
Peoria, IL
Height
5' 7"
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Caucasian
Eye Color
Hazel
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Quotes
"We are told with increasing vehemence, that this is a scientific age, that science is transforming the world, but is it not also a mechanized and impersonal age, an analytic and clinical one; an age in which under the hard gloss of affluence there can be detected the murmuring of the starved heart and the uneasy spirit?" – R.S. Thomas
"Everything got arranged in a way that our knowledge is incomplete so that we don’t blemish eternity and a hope remains. Because not knowing means hope. Not knowing also means sublimity, because knowledge is ordinary and cheap." – Andrei Tarkovsky
"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration." - Robert Bresson
A soldier of cinema.
Contact
Company
Mourning Dove Films
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