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Jakob wurde am 17. Juni 1982, in Freiburg, Deutschland geboren. Sein Vater, Paolo, war ein Student der Philosophie an der Zeit. Schon sehr früh wurde Jakob von Kunst in Form von Schriften, Poesie, Musik, Malerei und schließlich Filmen umgeben. Nachdem ich bemerkte, seinem Sohn die Kreativität, seinen Vater Jakob aussetzen, um so viel Kunst wie möglich, ihn zu unterstützen, in welcher Weise er sich leisten konnte. Seing den Blues Brothers Film im zarten Alter von 10 Jahren versetzt Jakob Interesse in Filmen noch mehr. Von da an mit seinem Vater Camcorder, würde er stundenlang schießen Stop-Motion-Stücke mit nichts als Lego. Jakob nicht einmal ausgeben sein Taschengeld auf etwas anderes als für Eintrittskarten für das Kino in seiner Jugend.

In 1998, Jakob submitted an short film with a digital spider to a national festival and won a prize. Even though the prize was small, it had a huge impact on Jakob and lead to much bigger things, as it threw him on the track of film making. What followed were internships with photographers and an apprenticeship in Frankfurt focusing on Media Design, where he learned the tools of the trade – from image manipulation over camera aperture to 3D animation. In 2003, Jakob finally saw the film that would change his life, that inspired him to fully focus on films, filmmaking and everything around it – it was Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 which is, in Jakob’s opinion, a film in perfect harmony. “Since film is not one but many arts mashed together, it is rare that every aspect is working together as perfectly as in KILL BILL: VOLUME 1.”

After visiting the Festival de Cannes in 2005, Jakob moved shortly afterwards to the New York of the East, Shanghai, China, and started to shoot. Within 5 years, Jakob did not only work for high profile clients such as Porsche, Dell and Microsoft, but also managed to open his own production company, MK Media Productions, write three feature film scripts, work on the big budget production JOHN RABE in the visual effect crew, and shoot his first feature film – SHANGDOWN: THE WAY OF THE SPUR. He is now living in Saarbrücken, Germany, with his wife Sijia and daughter Emily.