A lecture and film screening

by

Karen Folger Jacobs

Author, Screenwriter, and Educator

Karen Folger Jacobs is currently visiting India on a Fulbright Fellowship. She taught classes at St. Xavier’s in Mumbai, was a guest of the Kerala Film Festival, and will be a juror at the upcoming Film Festival in Bengaluru.

Karen has spent the majority of her professional life as a writer. Her work spans a wide range which includes young adult fiction, books on sports and health, and articles published in the New York Times, Essence, Mademoiselle, Image, and the Hollywood Reporter.

Her most impressive achievements have come from her work in the film industry. Jacobs has written and edited numerous screenplays, and has taught seminars on screenwriting in California, New York, and Texas. She has worked on films in Mexico and Italy, and once attended the Cannes Film Festival with an Italian film on which she was assistant director. She served as a juror in the 1998 Naples Film Festival in Italy.

Jacobs has been an active athlete for most of her life. She is an avid mountain biker, teaches and practices yoga.

Today, Karen Folger Jacobs lives in Berkeley,California where she teaches film courses at the University of California at Berkeley.