
Directing
Jacob Joseph Held
London
Jacob Joseph Held is a film director from London. He is known for, Puddle Man Six Weeks and Reverie. Held’s short dramas explore complex emotions often through magic realism.
Acting credits
NRWhen Jacob is diagnosed with cancer that requires him to have a bone marrow transplant and isolate in a hospital room for six weeks, he has a choice to make: he can let his own anxiety and loneliness eat him up inside, or he can try and create something out of this experience. Seeing as how cancer is already trying to eat him, he decides to make a film - this film. Exploring friendship, loneliness, fear, banality and the unexpected humour in the situation, this is an honest and surprising documentary that poses the question: how does adversity affect creativity?
Six Weeks
2025
NRIn an odd adventure, Yotam tries his best to search through Bristol to find his friend, Laurie.
Looking for Laurie
2026
Behind the camera
NRToby is a twelve-year-old boy who is evacuated to Dartmoor in the midst of the Second World War. With new fears looming over him, Toby discovers his grandmother Julie’s dark past and a mysterious figure who wanders the moorland.
Puddle Man
2025
NRWhen Jacob is diagnosed with cancer that requires him to have a bone marrow transplant and isolate in a hospital room for six weeks, he has a choice to make: he can let his own anxiety and loneliness eat him up inside, or he can try and create something out of this experience. Seeing as how cancer is already trying to eat him, he decides to make a film - this film. Exploring friendship, loneliness, fear, banality and the unexpected humour in the situation, this is an honest and surprising documentary that poses the question: how does adversity affect creativity?
Six Weeks
2025
NRReverie tells the story of a young boy who truly believes that his toy aeroplane is magical. The film is 5 minutes long and explores themes of family, magical thinking, and hope.
Reverie
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NRReverie tells the story of a young boy who truly believes that his toy aeroplane is magical. The film is 5 minutes long and explores themes of family, magical thinking, and hope.
Reverie
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NRA man emerges from a box and approaches his van.
The Boxer
2025
NRBased on a true event, Orange Assessment is a dark but humorous tale of a young woman who goes for an interview at Oxford university. In this interview she is confronted by a question that leads her to lose some contact with reality.
Orange Assessment
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NRBased on a true event, Orange Assessment is a dark but humorous tale of a young woman who goes for an interview at Oxford university. In this interview she is confronted by a question that leads her to lose some contact with reality.
Orange Assessment
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NRIn effort of self-improvement, a young man hosts a picnic with all his exes. What could go wrong?
See Into the Trees
2024
