Jacob Joseph Held

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

Behind the camera

Puddle Man poster
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Toby 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

Six Weeks poster
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When 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

Reverie poster
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Reverie 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

Reverie poster
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Reverie 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

The Boxer poster
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A man emerges from a box and approaches his van.

The Boxer

2025

Orange  Assessment poster
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Based 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

Orange  Assessment poster
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Based 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

See Into the Trees poster
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In effort of self-improvement, a young man hosts a picnic with all his exes. What could go wrong?

See Into the Trees

2024