
Jake Yuzna
Directing
Biography
Jake Yuzna is an American film director, screenwriter, and curator.
Known For

On the last day of a summer camp for persons with disabilities, a teenage girl fights to connect the boy that might be the love of her life.
Young Adult

OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two trans women in a pandrogynous relationship in which they simultaneously receive plastic surgery treatments to mirror each other's features to ideally form into a single person. The second story follows a trans man and his new (cisgender) boyfriend as they run away from home and push against their own personal boundaries while dealing with his unexpected pregnancy.
Open

The full length official film The Knife - Live At Terminal 5. Filmed in New York in 2014 on the North American leg of their final tour Shaking The Habitual.
The Knife: Shaking the Habitual The Show Live at Terminal 5

A group of criminal justice de-escalation workers in Minneapolis embark on a collaborative film project that uses radical workshop techniques to explore their real-life struggles to escape the pressures of the American dream.
After America

Voyeuristically exploring a relationship between two young men, which falls into the gray area between the sexual experimentation of adolescence and the world of adult emotions, Between the Boys glimpses into one of the few remaining taboos of current times.