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Alan Jacobs - Motion Picture Director
Alan Jacobs is an American writer, film director and producer of motion pictures. He is best known for the films: American Gun, Nina Takes a Lover and Down For Life (Por Vida).

Jacobs has directed six feature films, working with actors including James Coburn, Brendan Fraser, Danny Glover, Timothy Hutton, Virginia Madsen, Elizabeth Pena, Snoop Dogg and Laura San Giacomo. His first film, Nina Takes a Lover, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994 and was later released by Columbia Pictures. American Gun, his most recent film, was distributed by Miramax. Jacobs also directed a romantic comedy, Just One Night, and co-directed an animated feature, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists.

A New York native, Jacobs began his career as the in-house filmmaker at Apple Computer, where he wrote and directed a series of marketing films. He studied writing and literature as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and made his first film as a graduate student at Stanford University.