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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
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at the
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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."
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'' "Critics' Pick" in 2005. He is of
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descent.


Career

''Secuestro Express'' became the nation's biggest box office hit at that time. His film, ''
Hands of Stone ''Hands of Stone'' is a 2016 American biographical sports film about the career of Panamanian former professional boxer Roberto Durán. It is directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz. It stars Édgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Usher, Ruben Blad ...
'' (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer
Roberto Durán Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as wel ...
(played by
Édgar Ramírez Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano (, born 25 March 1977) is a Venezuelan actor. Ramírez studied communications at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. He then worked in media and considered becoming a diplomat. When Guillermo Arriaga prai ...
) and his trainer
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(played by
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). ''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. His latest film '' Resistance'' starring
Jesse Eisenberg Jesse Adam Eisenberg (; born October 5, 1983) is an American actor, writer, and director. He has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awar ...
, who played Mark Zuckerberg in ''The Social Network,''
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, 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 Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French soldier during World War II. During his time in the French Resistance, he helped hundreds of Jewish children escape from German military administration in occupied France during W ...
, 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 Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldw ...
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.


Filmography


Film


Television


Novels

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. 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 Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a Venezuelan theater director, filmmaker, playwright, founder of Tectonic Theater Project, based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre. He was awarded the 2016 National ...
at Manhattan’s
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.


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"Up Next: Latin American Filmmakers".
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Danny Glover, Haiti, and the Politics of Revolutionary Cinema in Venezuela.
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