Jake Schreier (born September 29, 1981) is an American commercial,
music video and film director. He was a founding member of Waverly
Films, a Brooklyn-based filmmaking collective, and joined Park
Pictures in 2006, releasing his first feature film Robot & Frank in
2012. In 2015, he released Paper Towns, an adaptation of the 2008
novel of the same name by John GreenBorn in Berkeley, California, Jake
Schreier attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
After graduating, he directed music videos, including one for Francis
and the Lights, a performer/songwriter with whom Schreier also played
keyboard for several years. He also directed commercials for products
such as Absolut Vodka and Verizon phones. Together with his friends
from college, he co-founded the film collective Waverly Films and
continued to collaborate on film projects for television and the
web.In 2006, Schreier signed with Park Pictures, a commercial and film
production company, and worked on a number of advertising campaigns
and commercials; he was noted for his work and appeared in the “Best
New Directors†list of Creativity Magazine and other advertising
industry magazines. In 2012, he released his first feature film, Robot
& Frank, based on the screenplay by his Tisch classmate and friend
Christopher Ford. The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival, for best feature film that focuses on science
or technology as a theme, tying with the Kashmiri film Valley of
Saints. Robot & Frank earned Schreier critical acclaim for his feature
directorial debut. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan called
it "exceptionally polished for a first-time effort", and Rolling Stone
gave it three out of four stars. He also directed the film adaptation
of the John Green book, Paper Towns, which was released on July 24,
2015.
music video and film director. He was a founding member of Waverly
Films, a Brooklyn-based filmmaking collective, and joined Park
Pictures in 2006, releasing his first feature film Robot & Frank in
2012. In 2015, he released Paper Towns, an adaptation of the 2008
novel of the same name by John GreenBorn in Berkeley, California, Jake
Schreier attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
After graduating, he directed music videos, including one for Francis
and the Lights, a performer/songwriter with whom Schreier also played
keyboard for several years. He also directed commercials for products
such as Absolut Vodka and Verizon phones. Together with his friends
from college, he co-founded the film collective Waverly Films and
continued to collaborate on film projects for television and the
web.In 2006, Schreier signed with Park Pictures, a commercial and film
production company, and worked on a number of advertising campaigns
and commercials; he was noted for his work and appeared in the “Best
New Directors†list of Creativity Magazine and other advertising
industry magazines. In 2012, he released his first feature film, Robot
& Frank, based on the screenplay by his Tisch classmate and friend
Christopher Ford. The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival, for best feature film that focuses on science
or technology as a theme, tying with the Kashmiri film Valley of
Saints. Robot & Frank earned Schreier critical acclaim for his feature
directorial debut. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan called
it "exceptionally polished for a first-time effort", and Rolling Stone
gave it three out of four stars. He also directed the film adaptation
of the John Green book, Paper Towns, which was released on July 24,
2015.
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