Jacob Kornbluth is the award-winning director of documentaries ''

Inequality for All ''Inequality for All'' is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich. Based on Reich's 2010 book ''Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future'', the film exam ...

'', and '' Saving Capitalism'', and feature films '' Haiku Tunnel'', ''Love & Taxes'', and '' The Best Thief in the World''. He was a producer on the TV show ''Years of Living Dangerously.'' His work on that show won a primetime Emmy. Jacob has had 3 films premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Career

Jacob started his career as a writer and director in the theater. He collaborated on and directed three successful solo shows in San Francisco. "The Moisture Seekers", "Pumping Copy" (both with

Josh Kornbluth Josh Kornbluth (born May 21, 1959) is an American comedic autobiographical monologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has toured internationally, written and starred in several feature films, and starred in a television interview show. ...

), and "The Face By The Door" (with Christina Robbins). All three were nominated for or won "Best Of The Bay" awards and successfully toured the country, and a later version of "The Moisture Seekers" (called "Red Diaper Baby") has been included in anthologies of the best one man shows of the 90's. Jacob was a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs. He has had 3 feature films premiere at the Sundance Film Festival – "Haiku Tunnel" (Sony Pictures Classics) and The Best Thief In They World" (Showtime Independent) were narrative films, and "Inequality For All" (Radius / Weinstein) was a documentary. "Inequality For All" won the special jury prize for excellence in filmmaking at Sundance 2013. In 2014 he was a producer on the Showtime series about climate change, “Years of Living Dangerously”, that is executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and

Jerry Weintraub Jerome Charles "Jerry" Weintraub (September 26, 1937 – July 6, 2015) was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys. He began his career as a talent agent, having managed relatively unknown ...

. His work on that show won an Emmy. Jacob is co-director, with

Robert Reich Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in ...

, of Inequality Media, a 501c3 that uses short videos to explain economic issues in a way everyone can understand. He has directed over 100 videos for Inequality Media, and those videos had been viewed over 250 million times as of June 2017.

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* * *https://www.inequalitymedia.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Kornbluth, Jacob Living people American documentary film directors Year of birth missing (living people)