Sarah Jacobson (August 25, 1971 â€" February 13, 2004) was an American
film director, screenwriter, and producer.Jacobson was born in
Connecticut, moved to New Jersey in 1975, then to Edina, Minnesota in
1982. She graduated with honors from Edina High School in Edina,
Minnesota in 1989. She attended Bard College to study with Adolfas
Mekas. Then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute in San
Francisco in 1991 to study film. While attending SFAI with George
Kuchar as her mentor, Jacobson began making I Was a Teenage Serial
KillerJacobson's two most well known works are I Was a Teenage Serial
Killer and Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore. Both were well received
at film festivals across North America such as the New York
Underground Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival and
Sundance. I Was a Teenage Serial Killer featured songs by Heavens to
Betsy. She was listed in Spin as one of the "Top Influences on Girl
Culture".Also outspoken in their praise were film critic Roger Ebert,
filmmaker Allison Anders, and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. Ed Halter,
writing in the Village Voice, considered I Was A Teenage Serial Killer
"a key film of that decade's angrily subversive underground cinema".
film director, screenwriter, and producer.Jacobson was born in
Connecticut, moved to New Jersey in 1975, then to Edina, Minnesota in
1982. She graduated with honors from Edina High School in Edina,
Minnesota in 1989. She attended Bard College to study with Adolfas
Mekas. Then transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute in San
Francisco in 1991 to study film. While attending SFAI with George
Kuchar as her mentor, Jacobson began making I Was a Teenage Serial
KillerJacobson's two most well known works are I Was a Teenage Serial
Killer and Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore. Both were well received
at film festivals across North America such as the New York
Underground Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival and
Sundance. I Was a Teenage Serial Killer featured songs by Heavens to
Betsy. She was listed in Spin as one of the "Top Influences on Girl
Culture".Also outspoken in their praise were film critic Roger Ebert,
filmmaker Allison Anders, and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. Ed Halter,
writing in the Village Voice, considered I Was A Teenage Serial Killer
"a key film of that decade's angrily subversive underground cinema".
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