TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I met Christian through a producer friend with whom I’m developing a feature film and it quickly became apparent that I was talking to someone who had deep knowledge of movie-structure. Christian came onboard the feature project and is currently writing the script but at the same time we developed a short film together. He was highly professional, he worked very fast, he was very methodical and organized, he listened to my input and filtered it accordingly, he was enthusiastic and meticulous and ultimately delivered a solid script. The film was accepted to compete at the Drama Film Festival, the biggest short film festival in Greece. Having gone through the pressed-for-time short film process with him (three weeks from writing to completion of principal photography) I am even more excited about working with him on the feature. In these tough times in Greece were good screenwriters are rare, Christian is the light at the end of the tunnel. I would recommend him anytime.
Please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail should you have any questions.
Sincerely,
George Siougas
DIRECTOR
TV MINI-SERIES (MEGA CHANNEL), SHORTS
gsiou at otenet dot gr
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Constantine Giannaris
Recommendation of Christian Jakobsen
After 15 months work on my script “Welcome Aboard” I was tired and had come to an impasse. I found it impossible to create an emotional connection with two of my main characters. External readers were very praiseful of the idea, the story line and the dramatic thrust of the story but missed precisely this emotional bond. Along with this praise of course came much rather ill suited and ill conceived ‘advice’ as to what I should ‘change’, ‘get rid of’, ‘restructure’, ‘rewrite’ and ‘reconfigure’. Meeting Christian and working with him over the summer was really a breakthrough. For the first time someone was able to make me to see the emotional logic of what I was writing. Much like a psychoanalyst is able to guide their patient towards a self-awareness. Working with Christian was for me a form of analysis. At times paralyzing, scary and very demanding. He is erudite direct and grounded in cinema and drama of which he has an intense love. I believe the discussions with him were crucial in unblocking me, making the writing a joy again and in taking the script forward.
Constantine Giannaris
After 15 months work on my script “Welcome Aboard” I was tired and had come to an impasse. I found it impossible to create an emotional connection with two of my main characters. External readers were very praiseful of the idea, the story line and the dramatic thrust of the story but missed precisely this emotional bond. Along with this praise of course came much rather ill suited and ill conceived ‘advice’ as to what I should ‘change’, ‘get rid of’, ‘restructure’, ‘rewrite’ and ‘reconfigure’. Meeting Christian and working with him over the summer was really a breakthrough. For the first time someone was able to make me to see the emotional logic of what I was writing. Much like a psychoanalyst is able to guide their patient towards a self-awareness. Working with Christian was for me a form of analysis. At times paralyzing, scary and very demanding. He is erudite direct and grounded in cinema and drama of which he has an intense love. I believe the discussions with him were crucial in unblocking me, making the writing a joy again and in taking the script forward.
Constantine Giannaris
Vardis Marinakis
Recommendation for Christian Jakobsen
Christian was the consultant and editor of the script for my feature film “Black Field” which is going to be shot in spring 2008. With Christian we collaborated over a 3-month period.
With professional knowledge, patience, fantasy, preciseness, intuition and philosophical spirit Christian guided me to find again the core of what I wanted to say with this film. He also helped me to penetrate the deepest possible into my subject matter and create a script, which is bold and moving.
Hard work, square logic and humility are some basic ingredients to create poetry. This is something that the Greek directors usually forget. Christian without being dogmatic he always adjusted the scriptwriting techniques towards my personal style. He brought to life the story that was hidden in my script and he built up inside me a strong base of a scriptwriting technique that will help me in the future. The language was no barrier at all. Instead I was forced to express my self clearly avoiding the empty words we sometimes use to avoid talking about the subject matter.
Over all I am glad I worked with Christian because I met a wonderful guy, sensitive, smart and with great humor.
Vardis Marinakis
3/9/2007
Christian was the consultant and editor of the script for my feature film “Black Field” which is going to be shot in spring 2008. With Christian we collaborated over a 3-month period.
With professional knowledge, patience, fantasy, preciseness, intuition and philosophical spirit Christian guided me to find again the core of what I wanted to say with this film. He also helped me to penetrate the deepest possible into my subject matter and create a script, which is bold and moving.
Hard work, square logic and humility are some basic ingredients to create poetry. This is something that the Greek directors usually forget. Christian without being dogmatic he always adjusted the scriptwriting techniques towards my personal style. He brought to life the story that was hidden in my script and he built up inside me a strong base of a scriptwriting technique that will help me in the future. The language was no barrier at all. Instead I was forced to express my self clearly avoiding the empty words we sometimes use to avoid talking about the subject matter.
Over all I am glad I worked with Christian because I met a wonderful guy, sensitive, smart and with great humor.
Vardis Marinakis
3/9/2007
PER BRASK
RE: Troels Christian Jakobsen
During the last eight weeks, April 28 – June 20, 2003, Mr. Troels Christian Jakobsen has been doing a Directing Intensive with me. He has directed student actors in various projects, amounting to 18 scenes and 12 monologues. The work was presented every two weeks, three batches of scenes and a batch of monologues. The particular focus of Mr. Jakobsen’s work was the interaction with actors, specifically in terms of discovering the kinds of director-actor communication, which would release the best possible performance from the individual acting student.
Throughout the session Mr. Jakobsen’s work was sensitive to each acting student’s needs and the requirements of the scene or monologue being worked on. Though not working in his mother tongue, he was often remarkably subtle in his communications and always effective. The acting student benefited greatly from working with him.
During this Directing Intensive, it became clear to me that Mr. Jakobsen has a rare gift for zeroing in on the fundamental human dilemma a well-written scene provides and from there leading his actors into a persuasive theatricality vested in their own persons. Consequently, Mr. Jakobsen’s theatre is deeply engaging and thought-provoking.
Mr. Jakobsen is a very talented theatre artist and I am delighted to give him my highest recommendations.
Yours sincerely, Per Brask
During the last eight weeks, April 28 – June 20, 2003, Mr. Troels Christian Jakobsen has been doing a Directing Intensive with me. He has directed student actors in various projects, amounting to 18 scenes and 12 monologues. The work was presented every two weeks, three batches of scenes and a batch of monologues. The particular focus of Mr. Jakobsen’s work was the interaction with actors, specifically in terms of discovering the kinds of director-actor communication, which would release the best possible performance from the individual acting student.
Throughout the session Mr. Jakobsen’s work was sensitive to each acting student’s needs and the requirements of the scene or monologue being worked on. Though not working in his mother tongue, he was often remarkably subtle in his communications and always effective. The acting student benefited greatly from working with him.
During this Directing Intensive, it became clear to me that Mr. Jakobsen has a rare gift for zeroing in on the fundamental human dilemma a well-written scene provides and from there leading his actors into a persuasive theatricality vested in their own persons. Consequently, Mr. Jakobsen’s theatre is deeply engaging and thought-provoking.
Mr. Jakobsen is a very talented theatre artist and I am delighted to give him my highest recommendations.
Yours sincerely, Per Brask
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