Merry Christmas 2023

Merry Christmas (Remember to turn on audio!)

I am grateful for a 2023 in both film and TV, I am grateful for:

- "Deadly Dream Bodies" was released on DR, which I made together with the highly visual and talented journalist/director Nicolaj Pedersen.

- "The Cry of a Sparrow" with the talented and highly competent director Ibi Støving at the helm, made it´s film festival rounds.

- "Politi i forfald" was released on Kanal 5/Discovery plus, with the experienced and seasoned duo Martin Kjær Jensen and Jesper Holm Pedersen as journalists.

I wish all my past and future business partners a Merry Christmas.

Kind regards.

Jacob Weiss - Weisscut

"Simply Put...A very beautiful film"

The best feedback that a filmmaker (including me as an editor) can receive comes directly from an audience who sees the film for the very first time. After The Cry of a Sparrow won "Best Long Short Film" at a festival, we received this video with reactions from this very audience. It seems that the film has made an impression and hit a nerve with the audience "over there".

Deadly dream bodies open the debate in the Danish Government.

Deadly dream bodies, which I edited alongside my talented editor colleague Morten Holm and of course series director Nicolaj Pedersen, has gained momentum. This has resulted in the 3-program series being the most streamed on DRTV (Danish Broadcast Corporation) streaming platform, only a few days after the premiere. More important it has opened the debate, in the general population and the Danish Government, about the misuse of paraffin oil.

The reason why the series has had this strong of an effect is hard to say. But one suggestion could be that the series although, it deals with a larger social and healthcare problem, is a very personal and intimate story about three men's consequences from a wrong choice in their past.

Because the story is told by our main characters, I focused a lot on finding the story in their everyday life and decoding our main character's body language, facial expressions, speech pattern and their eyes. Since we are dealing with real people, who usually don´t talk about their feelings, their face and eyes reveal the internal struggle and huge emotions. Real people have their very own natural "performance" if you as an editor are willing to discover it.