barlow jacobs

LOW AND BEHOLD was written, produced, and stars Barlow Jacobs. The film is the story of a young insurance claim adjuster in post-Katrina New Orleans risks his job to help a local man find his lost dog. As the unlikely pair navigate the storm ravaged city, they eventually come to discover that some damage is immeasurable. Shot in New Orleans only months after Hurricane Katrina, this neorealist-inspired film blends fiction and non-fiction to tell the story of an unlikely friendship. After it’s premier at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival LOW AND BHEOLD went on to win 9 festival awards. It was re-released in 2015 by Sundance Selects for the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Atlantic Monthly did a feature on the film where they raved “one of those rare commercial films about a large-scale tragedy that manages to express something true and meaningful.”