Jake Boritt is an American documentary

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and producer. Jake Boritt Photograph

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Boritt was a producer on

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's Moxie-Firecracker production "The Homestead Strike", part of the Emmy winning

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series "10 Days That Changed America." Boritt worked with Sarah Teale on productions for HBO, A&E,

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and CourtTV and on

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's "Young Doctor Freud" and "Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm" (PBS). In 2003, Boritt shot and produced an anthropological documentary with a tribe in

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called "The Internet and the Water Buffalo," exploring the effects of a satellite internet connection in a remote indigenous village in the interior jungle highlands. It screened at the American Anthropological Association. Boritt's 2007 film "Budapest to Gettysburg" explored the story of his father Professor

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, a world-renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar who returned to

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to find his roots in the tyranny of

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and

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. "Budapest to Gettysburg" was selected for the 2007 IFP Independent Film Week in New York and screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, and was finalist for the documentary series POV. Boritt's short documentary for the

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and

Project Gaia Project Gaia is a U.S. non-governmental, non-profit organization involved in the creation of a commercially viable household market for alcohol-based fuels in Ethiopia and other countries in the developing world.

followed Somali refugees in Ethiopia's

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and the Clean Cook revolution. This project, "Cooking to Live," featured music by hip-hop artist

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, and in 2009 it premiered at COP15: United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Boritt also produced several short films for the United Nations Development Program: South South Cooperation featuring actor Danny Glover. In 2010 his film " 759: Boy Scouts of Harlem" was broadcast nationally on public television via

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. The film premiered at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and screened on the

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and in the

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