Meet Zeva Oelbaum

Welcome Zeva Oelbaum to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Zeva's first screening of her film, Ahead of Time, will be tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1 at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, GA. The film starts at 7:00 pm so don't miss a moment.


Ahead of Time is also screening in the following cities: To see when check the screenings calendar.

Gainesville, GA

Hapeville, GA

Manteo, NC

Orangeburg, SC

Zeva Oelbaum is an award winning producer and the founder of Reel Inheritance Films, a documentary film production company. She directed and produced a short film on Ruth Gruber, before producing the feature-length film. She was executive producer of Rene and I, a feature length documentary on twins Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin who were six years old when they survived Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.  

Meet Amy Elliott

Welcome Amy Elliott to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Amy's first screening of her film, World's Largest is tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1 at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The show starts at 7:30 PM. Don't forget your popcorn!


World's Largest is also screening in the following cities: To see when check the screenings calendar.

Montgomery, AL

Alexandria, LA

Savannah, GA

Tupelo, MS

Thomasville, GA

Charleston, SC

Winder, GA

Clemson, SC 

Johnson City, TN  

Amy Elliott is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in New York City. She co-directed, shot and edited the feature documentary “World’s Largest.”  Her photography has appeared in countless national publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of Princeton University.

Meet Greg Jacobs

Welcome Greg Jacobs to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Greg is splitting his tour with his Co-Producer/Co-Director Jon Siskel who started things off at UAB last week. Greg's first stop on the tour will be Thursday, October 20, at The Arts Council Inc in Gainesville, GA. This screening of Louder Than A Bomb starts at 7:30 PM so don't miss a minute of the action.


Greg Jacobs, The Siskel/Jacobs Productions co-founder, served as VP/Chief Creative Officer at Towers Productions, where he oversaw the content of more than two hundred documentaries on five different networks, including award-winning shows and series for A&E, History, Discovery, The Weather Channel, and CNN. A graduate of Yale University, Greg has a master's degree in history from Ohio State, and is the author of Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools. 

Meet Jon Siskel

Welcome Jon Siskel to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Jon and his film, Louder Than A Bomb start their tour of the Southeast in Birmingham, AL at the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts center at UAB on October 13. The show starts at 7:00 PM CT so get your popcorn ready!


Jon Siskel, The Siskel/Jacobs Productions co-founder, was executive producer and co-creator of the series "Fake Out", which ran for two seasons on Court TV. He has also produced shows for the A&E series American Justice, Investigative Reports, and Biography. His work has been shown on The Travel Channel, Discovery, and History. Jon serves on the board of directors of Free Spirit Media, a Chicago-based youth media organization, as well as the Gene Siskel Film Center. He is the nephew of the late film critic Gene Siskel. 


Jon will be splitting the tour of Louder Than A Bomb with his Co-Director/Co-Producer, Greg Jacobs (intro coming soon!).

Meet Geoff Marslett

Welcome Geoff Marslett to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Geoff's first screening for his film Mars is Friday, October 7 at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Arts in Charleston, SC. The show starts at 8:00 PM so don't be late!


Geoff has directed twenty short films and segments of longer projects. His critically acclaimed short film Monkey vs. Robot screened at over 25 festivals worldwide, was distributed theatrically and broadcast on HBO, PBS, and Univision. MARS, Geoff’s first full-length feature film, premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival and screened around the country winning awards in Dallas, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Geoff was recently named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and received the Board of Regents Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award for his teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Geoff is currently working out worldwide distribution for MARS.

Meet Stephen Cone

Welcome Stephen Cone and The Wise Kids to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Stephen's first screening is tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm at the Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. If you are in the area you definitely don't want to miss it.


Stephen Cone (Writer/Producer/Director/Austin) moved to Chicago in July of 2004. While dabbling in the Chicago theatre scene, he founded Cone Arts in 2005 to faciliate the making of his own films. Since then, he has written and directed the short films “Church Story,” “Young Wives” (co-production with Collaboraction; screened at 2007 LA Shorts Fest) and “7 Experiments,” as well as his medium-length feature debut “The Christians”(with Split Pillow; screened at Gene Siskel Film Center; Philadelphia Independent Film Festival; NewFilmmakers @ Anthology Film Archives) and his first two full-length features “In Memoriam” (Gene Siskel Film Center, Big Muddy Film Festival, Buffalo/Niagara Film Festival) and The Wise Kids.