Jonathan Jakubowicz
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Jonathan Jakubowicz is a Venezuelan filmmaker and writer, winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film "Resistance". His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards[1] and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005.[2] He is of Polish-Jewish descent.[3]
Career
[edit]Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit at that time.[4]
His film, Hands of Stone (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro).[5] Hands of Stone premiered in the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and was warmly received with a 15-minute standing ovation. It is the first Latin movie to have a simultaneous wide release in all of Latin America.[6][7][8][9]
His latest film, Resistance, stars Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, and Clemence Poesy. It tells the story of a group of Boy and Girl Scouts who saved thousands of orphans during the Holocaust. One of them was the legendary resistance fighter Georges Loinger, who met with Jakubowicz and helped him with the research of the film, before he died on December 28, 2018. Georges Loinger was the first cousin of Marcel Marceau and died at 108 years of age.
Resistance was released in the United States on March 27, 2020, by IFC Films during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it became the number one theatrical movie in America for two weeks in a row. Most multiplexes were closed, and only a few independent and drive-in theaters remained opened, which gave Resistance the most unusual top box office spot of all time. The film was awarded The German Film Peace Prize 2020, and it was in the official selection of the Shanghai Film Festival, The Munich Film Festival, and the Festival du Cinema Americain de Deauville, among others.[10]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Ships of Hope | Yes | Yes | No | Documentary |
| 2002 | Distance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film |
| 2005 | Secuestro Express | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Hands of Stone | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2020 | Resistance | Yes | Yes | Yes | also editor |
| TBA | Untitled De Niro/Ramirez/Jakubowicz Project | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Lynch | 2 episodes |
| 2011-13 | Prófugos | 16 episodes |
Novels
[edit]In November 2016, Jakubowicz published his first novel Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, which became a best seller in the Spanish language market. In Venezuela, the book broke sales records and was read in public gatherings, as well as on a community of fifty thousand people that define themselves as "resistance to the Maduro dictatorship (Resistencia Venezuela hasta los tuétanos)", on the app Zello.[citation needed]
In July 2020, Jakubowicz published La Venganza de Juan Planchard, the sequel to his first novel. It immediately rose to the #1 spot in of Best Sellers in Spanish Language Fiction, in Amazon.
Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard was adapted for the stage by 2016 National Medal of Arts award winning theater director Moisés Kaufman at Manhattan’s Tectonic Theater Project. [11]
References
[edit]- ^ Vázquez, Mercedes. His film "Resistance" won the German Film Peace Prize 2020, and the "Voice of Humanity Award" given by the Algemeiner foundation. His film "Hands of Stone" was in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2016. And his two novels from the series "The Adventures of Juan Planchard" are International Best Sellers in Spanish Language. "Secuestro Express and La clase: politics of realism in contemporary Venezuelan filmmaking." Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine Jump Cut. 52: Summer 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ Kern, Laura. "Movie Review: Secuestro Express (2004), NYT Critics' Pick". The New York Times. 5 August 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ King, Michael. "'Secuestro Express': Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on Venezuela's surprise hit". The Austin Chronicle. 28 October. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ Forero, Juan (October 6, 2005). "Venezuelan Filmmaker Finds His Kidnapping Tale Resonates With the Masses". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ^ "Robert de Niro is Really into Boxing Movies Again". 8 April 2013.
- ^ http://www.morphizm.com/recommends/interviews/orozco_fastalker.html
- ^ http://movies.about.com/od/directorinterviews/a/jakbwicz072805.html [dead link]
- ^ "'Hands of Stone': As Roberto Duran, Ramirez boxes like a champ". 25 August 2016.
- ^ "'Hands of Stone' review: Robert de Niro returns to greatness as he steps back into ring". 25 August 2016.
- ^ Deadline Hollywood Resistance Movies: 2004 Secuestro Express Director 2016 Hands of Stone Director 2019 Resistance Director 1202491944/
- ^ "Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard". Tectonic Theater Project. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
External links
[edit]- Jonathan Jakubowicz at IMDb
- "Jonathan Jakubowicz". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- Forero, Juan "Venezuelan Filmmaker Finds His Kidnapping Tale Resonates With the Masses". The New York Times. 6 October 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- de la Fuente, Anna Maria. "Venezuela lays down law". Variety. 3 September 2006. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- de la Fuente, Anna Maria. "Up Next: Latin American Filmmakers". Variety. 8 November 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
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