Lisa Jacobi
Post Production Supervisor
& Producer
Wolf Like Me - Seasons 1 & 2 [AUS] - HETV
Post Production Supervisor
S2 set for 2023 Release, S1 Released 2022
Mary has a secret she can't bring herself to share with anyone, not even Gary. The universe brought these two together for a reason.
Starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad
Directed by Abe Forsythe
Produced by Made Up Stories & Fifth Season
Networks NBC Universal / Peacock, and Stan
Strife [AUS] - HETV
Post Production Supervisor
In Production
Follows Evelyn Jones, a contemporary, flawed publisher who develops from a living room blogger to one of the most important figures in women's media.
Starring Asher Keddie and Jonathan LaPaglia
Directed by Stuart Bowen
Produced by Made Up Stories & Fifth Season
Networks Foxtel / Binge and Fifth Season International
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart [AUS] - HETV
Post Production Supervisor
Set for 2023 Release
The enchanting story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength.
Starring Sigourney Weaver
Directed by Glendyn Ivin
Produced by Made Up Stories & Fifth Season
Network Amazon Studios
Nine Perfect Strangers [AUS/USA] - HETV
Post Production Supervisor
Set for 2023 Release
Nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them is resort director Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However these strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy
Directed by Jonathan Levine
Produced by Made Up Stories & Fifth Season
Network Hulu
Blaze[AUS] - Feature Film
Post Production Supervisor
Released 2022
After accidentally witnessing a violent crime, a young girl is left catatonic and struggles to make sense of what she saw, ultimately finding renewal in the inestimable world of her own imagination.
Starring Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Julia Savage
Directed by Del Kathryn Barton
Produced by Causeway Films
Penguin Bloom [AUS] - Feature Film
Post Production Supervisor
Released 2021
Based on the International best-selling book, this magical films tells the true and emotional story of a young mother recovering from a near-fatal accident. As the family struggles to come to terms with their new situation, a guardian angel enters their lives in the form of an injured magpie., who helps them rediscover the preciousness of life..
World debut at Toronto Film Festival.
Starring Naomi Watts
Directed by Glendyn Ivin
Produced by Made Up Stories, Emma J. Cooper and Naomi Watts
The Dry [AUS] - Feature Film
Post Production Supervisor
Released 2021
A cop returns to his hometown to face the demons of his past after his childhood friend dies in a gruesome murder-suicide. His return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Starring Eric Bana
Directed by Robert Connolly
Produced by Made Up Stories
Little Monsters [AUS] - Feature Film
Post Production Supervisor
Released 2019
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids' show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Premiered Sundance, SXSW
Starring Lupita Nyong'o
Directed by Abe Forsythe
Produced by Made Up Stories, Snoot Entertainment
Girl and Body [AUS] - Short Film
Production Manager
Released 2019
On the eve of an important audition, an ambitious dancer suffers a frightening collapse and struggles to regain control of her body against a strange force inside.
International Premiere 2020 Berlin Film Festival
World Premiere Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Starring Nancy Denis and Adele Perovic
Directed by Charlotte Mars
Produced by Ella Millard
Beautiful They [AUS] - Short Film
Production Supervisor
Released 2020
Violet and Blue’s youth collide in an early morning toke that leads to the ocean, in this tender and visually charged, non-binary love story; a queer surf-romance about the nuance of gender, and the refuge found in being truly seen.
International Premiere 2020 Berlin Film Festival
Starring Morgan Davies and Sariah Saibu
Directed by Cloudy Rhodes
Produced by Ella Millard
Make Up [UK] - Feature Film
ADR Producer
Released 2019
Psychological thriller about a young woman who is forced to question her sexuality when she is stalked by another woman.
Starring Molly Windsor
Directed by Claire Oakley
Produced by Emily Morgan
I Am Not A Witch [UK] - Feature Film
Post Producer
Released 2018
Satire about a nine-year-old girl who is falsely accused of being a witch, and exiled to a witch camp in Zambia.
UK's submission for 2019 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
BAFTA-winner 2018. Cannes Film Festival Director's Fortnight 2017, Toronto 2017, London Film Festival 2017, Sundance 2018.
Directed by Rungano Nyoni
Produced by Emily Morgan and Juliette Grandmont
7 Days in Entebbe [UK] - Feature Film
Post Production Coordinator
Released 2018
Four hijackers take over an airplane, take the passengers hostage, and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda in 1976 in an effort to free of dozens of Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel.
World Premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2018.
Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl
Directed by José Padilha
Produced by Participant Media and Working Title Films
King of Thieves [UK] - Feature Film
Post Production Coordinator
Released 2018.
Based on the 2015 Hatton Garden safe deposit robbery, during which valuables worth an estimated £200 million were stolen in an audacious raid, planned and executed by four elderly men.
Starring Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone.
Directed by James Marsh
Produced by Working Title Films
Johnny English Strikes Again [UK] - Feature Film
Post Production Coordinator
Released 2018
After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
Starring Rowan Atkinson
Directed by David Kerr
Produced by Working Title Films
Rise of the Footsoldier 3 [UK] - Feature Film
Production Manager
Released 2017
Heavy-action cult classic feature film about notorious gangster, Pat Tate, who rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.
Starring Craig Fairbrass, Terry Stone
Directed by Zackary Adler
Produced by Carnaby International, Tiernan Hanby
Beast [UK] - Feature Film
Post Production Coordinator
Released 2018
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Starring Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn
Directed by Michael Pearce
Produced by Stray Bear, Agile Films
Pendulum [UK] - Short Film
Producer
Released 2017
Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives in advance of the impending collapse of the cosmos. A guerrilla-style micro budget film shot in UK & India. World premiere at 'Stranger With My Face International Film Festival' in Australia 2017. Screened internationally at film festivals in 2017/2018 incl. BAFTA-qualifying ENCOUNTERS 2017.
Released online 2019, with over 250,000 views across 'Gunpowder & Sky' DUST platforms. Sci-fi road-trip short film.
Starring Lauren Cooney, Scott Michael Wagstaff
Directed by Lauren Cooney
Produced by Lisa Jacobi
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/126780014.
Pigs and Courgettes [UK] - Short Film
Co-Producer
Released 2017
A victim of domestic abuse lures her tormentor to a remote pig farm, where he learns a valuable lesson in life: pigs eat absolutely anything.
Directed by Kyoko Miyake (selected 2016 Cannes Cinefondation)
Produced by Felix Matschke and Lisa Jacobi
Shut Eye [UK] - Short Film
Producer
Released 2017
Let's play a game. Take the most potent sleeping pills on the planet and try to stay awake. Last one to fall asleep... wins.
Premiered at International 'Cucalorus Film Festival' (USA)
Directed by Lauren Cooney
Produced by Lisa Jacobi
Kissing All The Fish [UK] - Short Film
Producer
Released 2016.
In a crowded rave, a lonely woman feels deeply disconnected and seeks shelter in a store room where she falls into conversation with an unlikely stranger, who may save her life.
World Premiere at 'Shorts On Tap Festival' (UK) 2017..
Directed by Thembisa Cochrane
Produced by Lisa Jacobi
ABOUT
Lisa is an independent film Producer and Post-Production Supervisor based in Sydney, Australia.
Fueled by strong creative collaborations, Lisa has traversed all forms of Film Production across London & Sydney. Lisa has extensive experience in Post Production, having worked with prominent production companies including Working Title Films in London and Made Up Stories in Australia, and international networks and studios across USA, UK and Australia.
In 2018 Lisa relocated from London to Sydney, where she is currently Post Production Supervisor for Wolf Like Me Season 2 starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad, and Strife starring Asher Keddie and Jonathan LaPaglia. Earlier in 2023 she delivered The Lost Flowers for Alice Hart starring Sigourney Weaver, for Amazon Studios. Prior to this, she Post Production Supervised Wolf Like Me Season 1 and Nine Perfect Strangers starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, and Feature Films Penguin Bloom starring Naomi Watts, The Dry starring Eric Bana and Little Monsters starring Lupita Nyong’o.
In London, Lisa was in Post-Production on several Working Title Films features, incl. Entebbe (Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl), King of Thieves (Michael Caine) and Johnny English Strikes Again (Rowan Atkinson). Lisa also Post-produced the 2018 BAFTA-winning ground-breaking debut feature by Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch, which premiered at Cannes Director’s Fortnight and was UK’s Foreign Language Oscar Nominee for 2019. She also delivered the 2019 BAFTA-winning Beast by Michael Pearce.
On arriving in Australia in 2018, Lisa production-managed Screen Australia-backed short film Girl and Body by Charlotte Mars (AACTA award-nominated Gayby Baby) world-premiering at MIFF 2019 and Internationally premiering at Berlinale 2020. Lisa is in development with writer/director Lauren Cooney on UK-Aus co-production LGBTI+ romantic dramedy Banging Down Under and sci-fi psychological thriller Retrieval. Lisa has produced five short films including Lauren Cooney's award-winning international film festival hit Pendulum which has reached over 300,000 views online. In 2017 Lisa was Production Manager for British cult-classic feature film, Rise of the Footsoldier: The Beginning (Zackary Adler).
Lisa’s film career trajectory follows a 15+ year career in Project Management, during which she has led large-budget international IT projects.
Lisa is extremely passionate about producing narrative film, and is drawn to showcasing thought-provoking, boundary-pushing stories. What sets Lisa apart is her ability to bring clarity in the face of complexity, and bring structure and discipline to the seemingly nebulous. Producing allows Lisa to breathe life into film projects - transforming ideas, concepts and creative vision into tangible reality.