Raouf J Jacob
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Raouf J. Jacob is a human rights activist and award winning Documentary
Filmmaker at Worldwide Cinema Frames. Jacob "Films To Make People Care"
about human rights violations and the human condition around the globe.
The award winning director is originally from war-torn Sierra Leone,
West Africa. His family fled Sierra Leone at the climax of the barbaric
civil war in 1999 and immigrated to Boston, MA. in January of 2000.
Jacob is now a documentary filmmaker and has written, produced and
directed documentaries, spotlighting social and political injustice.
His films include, "Cry, America," which explored the tragic wake of
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and America's war in Iraq. The filmmaker also
created the "In a Blind World" series, which explored Nazi Dictator
Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," the Rwandan
Genocide of 1994, the current ongoing genocide in Sudan's western
region of Darfur, the persecution of the Baha'i community in Iran and
the reign of former warlord Pablo Escobar in The Republic of Colombia.
"A Culture of Silence" is the filmmaker's first full feature length
documentary. Jacob has collaborated and continues to work with Non
Governmental Organizations around the world in hopes of raising
awareness about human rights violations near and far.