NYFA / ALUMNI / FILMMAKING / JONATHAN JAKUBOWICZ
Jonathan Jakubowicz
FILMMAKER | DIRECTOR
Graduated from NYFA NYC Campus in 1997
Jonathan Jakubowicz wrote, directed, and produced Resistance (2020). This historical drama tells the story of mime Marcel Marceau (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and how Marceau saved ten thousand orphans during World War II.
He is an award-winning filmmaker from Caracas, Venezuela. Jakubowicz made his directorial debut in 2000 with Ships of Hope, a film he also wrote. In 2002, he wrote, directed, and produced the short film Distance.
Jakubowicz then wrote, directed, and produced Secuestro express (2004), a crime drama starring Mia Maestro, Jean Paul Leroux, and Ruben Blades. From 2011 to 2013, he directed 16 episodes of the TV series Fugitives (originally titled “Prófugos” in Spanish). Notably, the drama stars Nestor Cantillana, Benjamin Vicuña, and Luis Gnecco as the titular characters traveling across Chile from north to south.
In 2016, Jakubowicz wrote, directed, and produced the film Hands of Stone. The sports biography stars Edgar Ramírez as boxer Roberto Durán, Robert De Niro as his legendary trainer Ray Arcel, and Usher as Durán’s legendary rival, Sugar Ray Leonard.
He was the director and writer of the documentary “Soul of a Nation”.
He is currently working on an untitled film starring Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez and is the CEO of Epicentral Studios.
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