director/producer/cinematographer
Jake Boritt recently completed "Cooking to Live," for the United Nations's and Project Gaia. Filmed in Ethiopia's Ogaden Desert the documentary premiered at COP 15 - the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

"759: Boy Scouts of Harlem" is Jake's second feature documentary. It premiered at the Schomburg Center for the Study of African American Culture in Harlem and has screened on the USS Intrepid, at the US Capitol and numerous other venues including in Sri Lanka. It will air on public television in 2010 as part of the 2010 centennial celebration of Boy Scouts of America.

His first film, "Budapest to Gettysburg" was selected for the 2007 IFP Independent Film Week in New York, was a finalist for PBS' POV series and screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as part of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, across Hungary as part of the U.S. State Department's commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and numerous other locations.

Jake was Associate Producer on Rory Kennedy's Moxie-Firecracker production "The Homestead Strike", part of the Emmy winning History Channel series 10 Days That Changed America. Jake worked with Sarah Teale on productions for HBO, A&E, AMC and CourtTV and on David Grubin's "Young Doctor Freud" and "Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm" (PBS). Ken Burns called Boritt's first documentary "Adams County USA" (WITF) “a really good film.” Learn more at: boritt.com.