Jonathan Jakubowicz
Jonathan Jakubowicz
Jonathan Jakubowicz is a Venezuelan filmmaker, whose film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005. He is Jewish of Polish descent...
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Bob Weinstein (formerly of Miramax) saw it during the Los Angeles International Film Festival on a Saturday, and by Monday he had already bought the distribution rights.
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It changed my life, ... I was 45 minutes on the edge of dying. You start to value every single moment and see reality as a blessing.
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They were extremely helpful, ... They helped with the dialogue and making the script as real as possible. It was a collaborative effort.
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I realized that the elite - and I'm from that class - don't have any idea about how most of the people in Venezuela live. This taught me a lot about my own city.
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This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 percent of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.
came car experiment lives people poor population putting reaction realized several social
This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80% of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.