Matt Jacobson(I)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Over the last five decades, filmmaker and professor Matt Jacobson has worked on more than 50 feature film and media projects. Originally from Los Angeles, he graduated with an MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television in 1991.
After working most of the next decade as a film and media professional and instructor in Los Angeles, he accepted a tenure-track position teaching film and media production at the University of Kansas in 1999.
For more than twenty-five years, he has worked as Director of Photography with his primary creative partner, Academy-Award-winning writer and director Kevin Willmott, on a dozen major narrative and documentary projects. These include two feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: CSA: Confederate States of America (2005) and The Only Good Indian (2009). Some of the other projects Professor Jacobson has shot include the feature-length documentary Bukowski- Born Into This which premiered at Sundance in 2003, and the 2020 web series The Square Root, for which he was nominated for a National Daytime Emmy Award for Best Cinematography with his collaborator, Jeremy Osbern.
After working most of the next decade as a film and media professional and instructor in Los Angeles, he accepted a tenure-track position teaching film and media production at the University of Kansas in 1999.
For more than twenty-five years, he has worked as Director of Photography with his primary creative partner, Academy-Award-winning writer and director Kevin Willmott, on a dozen major narrative and documentary projects. These include two feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: CSA: Confederate States of America (2005) and The Only Good Indian (2009). Some of the other projects Professor Jacobson has shot include the feature-length documentary Bukowski- Born Into This which premiered at Sundance in 2003, and the 2020 web series The Square Root, for which he was nominated for a National Daytime Emmy Award for Best Cinematography with his collaborator, Jeremy Osbern.
