Jake Schreier

Jake Schreier

Birth : 1981-09-29, Berkeley, California, U.S.

History

Jake Schreier is an American director of short and feature films. He has also directed music videos and commercials. 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 Green.

Profile

Jake Schreier

Movies

Thunderbolts
Director
A world without Avengers doesn't mean there's not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they're called the Thunderbolts.
We Cry Together
Director
Live recorded on March 15th, 2020
Chance the Rapper's Magnificent Coloring World
Director
A secret concert that Chance the Rapper filmed in 2017, just after he’d won three Grammys for 2016 record, Coloring Book. The concert was performed in front of a select group of fans in Chance’s hometown of Chicago, and it was intentionally staged and filmed as a movie to be screened in theaters.
Paper Towns
Director
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues-and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.
Robot & Frank
Director
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.
Magic Valley
Associate Producer
As one warm October day unfolds, the sleepy town of Buhl, Idaho will never be the same. A fish farmer finds his crop destroyed, a couple of kids are playing an unusual game in the sun-dappled fields, and after a wild party a sleepless teenager is harboring an awful secret….
Christopher Ford Sees a Film
Director
What would you do if you saw a terrible film and your name was Christopher Ford?
Beef
Director
Two people who let a road rage incident burrow into their minds and slowly consume their every thought and action.
We All Die Young
Producer
A rapper in the midst of breaking big and undertaking the biggest live tour anyone has ever seen.
We All Die Young
Director
A rapper in the midst of breaking big and undertaking the biggest live tour anyone has ever seen.