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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]
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's the first Latin movie to have a simultaneous wide release in all of Latin America. [6] [7] [8] [9]
His latest film Resistance starring Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Clemence Poesy and others. It tells the story of a group of boys and girls 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 Coronavirus epidemic, 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]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 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 | |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Lynch | 2 episodes |
| 2011-13 | Prófugos | 16 episodes |
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]
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Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard is a novel by Venezuelan writer and filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz. The book was published in November 2016 and by February 2017 became the number one Amazon Best Seller for all Foreign Language Fiction. In Venezuela the book sparked unprecedented success, not only in the record breaking sales but also in the number of public gatherings to read it. One community of fifty thousand people that define themselves as "resistance to the Maduro dictatorship ", read the book aloud every night on the encrypted frequency of the app Zello. The book is on its way to become the biggest Best Seller of all time for a Venezuelan author.
Resistance is a 2020 biographical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, inspired by the life of Marcel Marceau. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Marceau, with Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alicia von Rittberg, Félix Moati, Géza Röhrig, Karl Markovics, Vica Kerekes, Bella Ramsey, Ed Harris and Édgar Ramírez.
1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of the Santa Isabel is a 2005 Venezuelan film based on the book The Mighty Orinoco by Jules Verne. The film premiered at the 2005 Guadalajara International Film Festival. It was the country's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2005, but was disqualified.
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