Name Anita Jacoby Role Film producer | Movies God on My Side | |
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Awards AACTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Television Series | ||
Anita Jacoby & Jon Casimir - BEST LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION SERIES - THE GRUEN TRANSFER ABC1
Anita Jacoby is an Australian film producer, television producer, and magazine editor. She has worked on a number of programmes on commercial and public television, including 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and Enough Rope.
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- Anita Jacoby Jon Casimir BEST LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION SERIES THE GRUEN TRANSFER ABC1
- Career
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Career
Jacoby grew up in Killara, the daughter of refugees displaced during the Second World War; her father from Germany and her mother from Russia, via China. Growing up, Jacoby aspired to a career in the creative industries, although she was expelled from Pymble Ladies' College in Year 10 for "being a pretty adventurous and difficult 15 year old determined to push the boundaries." Before producing television, she had a number of jobs in the media industry including a role as a subeditor at The Australian Women's Weekly and as a researcher for children's television programme, Simon Townsend's Wonder World. She worked on radio broadcaster John Laws' short-lived cable TV show, securing for Laws the final interview with fugitive businessman Christopher Skase. She rose through the ranks to supervising producer at The Today Show, but was never promoted to executive producer, with a man being promoted ahead of her on every occasion where the position became vacant.
She met TV personality Andrew Denton when she produced an interview between Denton and Kevin Costner to promote the film Waterworld, and by 2003 she and Denton were working professionally together full-time. Forming production company "Zapruder's Other Films" with Denton, she went on to produce his interview TV programme Enough Rope, which won an AFI award for "Best Light Entertainment Series" in 2003, 2004 and 2006. She also served as an executive producer for The Gruen Transfer and its related series Gruen Planet and Gruen Sweat. In 2012, Jacoby left Zapruder's Other Films, declaring it was time to strike out on her own and pursue other projects.
Jacoby is a keen player of squash, and spends time at her farm in Yarramalong where she raises cattle.
Anita is an Ambassador for The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award - Australia and currently chair of the 60th Anniversary Committee (2019).