Timo Jacobs
1.Your project has entered in our festival. What is your project
about?
It's about desire, betrayal and missing love in abundance, it's
about the search for a better place.
2. What are your ambitions with your project?
I'm happy to trigger the certain parts in
us all which we are usually too comfortable with to confront.
3. Tell us something about your shooting? What pleasantly
surprised you?
I'm always impressed when I see everything begin to get going.
See, at first you have an idea about something, then you look for the
words to express your idea, and finally it learns to walk on its own,
which always a big surprise in itself.
4. For what group of spectators is your film targeted?
The topics of humans striving for fulfilment in life and the
search for the missing ingredient of love are pretty much present in
everyone who has blood running through their veins or air in their
lungs, but you know what... it might be better if you ask this
question to our distributor?
5. Why should distributors buy your film?
It's a movie about the beauty of failure, so it's pretty clear
that you can only win.
6. How would you specify your work? What characterizes your film?
I prefer it if other people give you the answer to that,
because they have the privilege of a certain kind of distance to my
work.
7. Why did you decided to become a filmmaker?
I like the sensory overload you get when you bring all the
layers of movie-making together, which is really relaxing and
fulfilling for me. It's working with my intuition which nourishes my
soul.
8. Who is your role model?
When I was young I had Pippi Langstrumpf as a role model, then
when I got older I saw that nobody could do things any better than
her.
9. Which movies are your favorites? Why?
I like to get something out of a movie - it doesn't always have
to be clear what it is exactly - but it's gotta make me think about
something.
I don't like it if I can foresee or predict too much, unless it is a Blake Edwards movie.
I like Nicolas Roeg, Quentin Dupieux, Adam McKay or Mary Harron to
name four totally different artists.
10. Where do you look for inspiration for your films?
The world is full of beauty, but usually I tell stories about
neurotic people living in the city, and to sort that out and to get
clear about what I exactly want to say, I take long walks in the
nature, sometimes.
11. Which topics interest you the most?
Beauty and love.
12. What do you consider your greatest achievement in your career?
I try not to look at the world like that. I think that in itself is a
pretty good achievement, if you want to describe it that way.
13. What do you consider most important about filming?
That the camera has enough battery.
14. Which film technique of shooting do you consider the best?
That would take at least a weekend workshop to answer precisely. It
totally depends on the story and how you want to tell it. The budget
isn't even is a big issue anymore.
15. How would you rate/What is your opinion about current
filmmaking?
My opinion about current filmmaking? I don't exactly know where you
are going with that question, but I'm sure it's good. Good times.
16. What can disappoint you in a movie?
In a movie? One that I'm watching? If I don't believe a word.
17. Who supports you in your film career?
My Agent and my friends.
18. What are the reactions to your film?
It
often feels like people want to be my friends, maybe out of
compassion? (flutter their eyelids?)
19. Have you already visited any of the prestigious film
festivals?
Festivals seem to like the film, at least it won over fifty
awards at various festivals around the world.
20. What are your future plans in your filmmaking career?
I just finished a series titled „Benches of Berlin".
I think I´m pretty happy and I´m trying to „keeping it rolling".

TIMO JACOBS is a director, producer, writer and actor living in Berlin.
As an
actor he has appeared in films such as DREILEBEN - KOMM MIR NICHT
NACH by Dominik Graf and DREILEBEN - EINE MINUTE DUNKEL by Christoph
Hochhäusler. Both premiered at the 61st Berlin International
Filmfestival and received the German Television Award and the Grimme
Prize.
In
2011 Timo Jacobs played with Mario Adorf in GEGENGERADE, a film that
portraits the environment of the FC St. Pauli soccer club. He was
also awarded the Bambi for his role as the eastern-german Uwe in
BORNHOLMER STRASSE by Christian Schwochow.
Since
2016 Timo Jacobs has became a core-member of the Team DER KRIMINALIST
with Christian Berkel, a series for german television ZDF.
For international films he starred in MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA by Spike Lee and CARLOS / LE PRIX DU CHACAL by Olivier Assayas. Also, he could be seen in Salvatore Mereus' ASSANDIRA which premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.
Some highlights in Theater include DIE WAHLVERWANDSCHAFTEN by J.W. Goethe and KING OEDIPUS by Sophocles at Theater Zürich.
With
his film company Timo Jacobs produced his first feature KLAPPE
COWBOY! which premiered at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis and was
an immediate success with critics and viewers. In 2016 his second
film MANN IM SPAGAT followed.
His
most recent film STAND UP! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
introduces a burnt-out, struggling comedian played by himself. The
film has been screened worldwide and received numerous awards (New
York City International Film Festival and 21st Beverly Hills Film
Festival). In addition the film was selected as a wildcard for the
GERMAN FILMPREIS.
A
new documentary series BENCHES OF BERLIN - Schönheit der Krise about
artists dealing with their creativity crises is currently in
development.
Timo
Jacobs is a member of the German- and the European Film Academy.