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Free in Deed Free in Deed is a feature-length narrative about the troubles of an intensely religious man facing a reality devoid of miracles. Based on an actual event in which an eight year old autistic boy died during an attempt to perform a miraculous healing, the story constructs a fictional future for one of the men involved in the tragedy. Selected Works Film Wellness (2007)
Motion Studies: Inertia (2007) Motion Studies: Gravity, Heat, Perpetuum Mobile (2005) War (2004) Egypt Hollow (1996) Accomplishments Jake Mahaffy is a filmmaker and educator whose work is often spiritual and experimental. He has received grants from Creative Capital and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he was awarded the first Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship by the Sundance Institute. His films have been shown in festivals worldwide, and he was designated as one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005.
Education MFA, Film- The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Film/Video/Animation- Rhode Island School of Design Russian State Institute of Cinematography Brown University Interlochen Arts Academy Web Site News April, May, June 2008 Jake Mahaffy’s
Wellness
was included in Cinevegas,
and also shown with Inertia
in the Edinburgh
International Film Festival. Wellness, Mahaffy's
award-winning feature narrative, examines several days in the life of a
middle-aged pyramid scheme salesman. Inertia,
the latest entry in Mahaffy’s motion study series, tracks a
man
running as hard and as long as he can in a full suit of Middle Age
armor. January, February, March 2008
Jake Mahaffy’s Wellness
premiered at the Rotterdam
Film Festival, and won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW.
This feature
narrative examines several days in the life of a middle-aged pyramid
scheme salesman. Additionally, Mahaffy’s short film Inertia
was
shown at Rotterdam
and Sundance,
and is now available
to be downloaded
online. This latest entry in Mahaffy’s motion
study series tracks a man running as hard and as long as he can in a
full suit of Middle Age armor. |
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