Award-Winning Screenwriter & Director · Film · Music Videos · Theatre · Performance · Commercials · Worldwide

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Iris Jacobs creates truth-driven stories.

Iris Jacobs is an award-winning screenwriter and director offering writing, screenwriting and directing services across film, music videos, theatre, performance and commercials.

Her work is rooted in a deep passion for storytelling, physical theatre, movement, blocking, choreography, image and emotional truth — always searching for the deepest truth inside the story.

Writing & Directing

Boutique cinema, embodied storytelling, and precise direction.

Iris Jacobs develops and directs story-led work with a distinctly human centre. Her approach combines screenwriting, directing, dramaturgy, performance direction and choreographic sensitivity to create work that is emotionally resonant, cinematically strong and exact in form.

Whether the project is for screen, stage, live performance, music video or commercial storytelling, the process is rigorous, intuitive and collaborative — always in search of what is most alive, most specific and most true.

Services

Writing, screenwriting and directing shaped with truth, movement and visual intelligence.

Deep work in service of the story.

Every project begins with research, story excavation, structure, tone and emotional architecture. The aim is not only to make something beautiful, but to uncover what is essential.

Writing and direction are shaped through equal attention to performance, physicality, rhythm, image, movement, blocking and atmosphere so the final work feels embodied, clear and unforgettable.

What Iris Jacobs offers.

Original screenwriting, script development, rewriting, story shaping and dramaturgical support.
Direction across film, music videos, theatre, performance and commercials with a refined visual language.
Performance and movement direction through presence, blocking, choreography, physical theatre and emotional precision.
International collaboration for productions, artists, brands, institutions and story-led commissions.

Why work with Iris Jacobs

Award-winning perspective.

A writer-director with a distinctive voice, combining emotional precision with a visually powerful sense of form.

Embodied storytelling.

A strong foundation in performance, movement, physical theatre, blocking and choreography as storytelling tools.

International collaboration.

Open to collaborations worldwide for productions that want depth, clarity, artistic courage and truth.

Creative process

Human-centred, visually exact, emotionally alive.

Iris Jacobs works from the inside out: beginning with emotional truth, refining structure, and shaping the visual and physical language that allows a story to fully land.

The result is work that is story-led and sensorial — attentive to rhythm, bodies, gesture, silence, tension and atmosphere, while always remaining clear, rigorous and collaborative.