Sarah Jacobson, a gutsy female film maverick, passed away on February 13 in New York City. Sarah burst on to the S.F. film scene in the early '90's with her San Francisco Art Institute-produced short I Was A Teenage Serial Killer, a film she has described as the story of "a 19-year-old girl who has a series of run-ins with various condescending men." In the mid-'90's her debut feature Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore screened at Sundance, and tore up the festival circuit. She was known for her grassroots filmmaking and do-it-yourself style, mixing feminism and film by creating unconventional female protagonists. Look for a retrospective of Sarah's work in SF sometime soon. Read more about Sarah here, here, and here

"Everyone told me I would never be a filmmaker, and that's when I decided I would be, and they could go fuck off." — Sarah Jacobson