Jonathan Jakubowicz

Jakubowicz at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Kern, Laura. "Movie Review: Secuestro Express (2004), NYT Critics' Pick". The New York Times. 5 August 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  3. ^ King, Michael. "'Secuestro Express': Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on Venezuela's surprise hit". The Austin Chronicle. 28 October. Retrieved 28 September 2016.