Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

Two sisters, two boyfriends, one simple birthday weekend getaway. Or it would have been, if not for the threesome, the love affair, the unexpected arrival of a fiancé, and the ensuing ridiculous dinner role play charade everyone is forced to participate in just to keep from getting caught.

Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller’s film The Seasteaders documents the first Seasteading conference in Tahiti, talking with Seasteading evangelists like controversial author Joe Quirk and Seasteading Institute executive director Randolph Hencken to get firsthand accounts of the Seasteader’s beliefs and visions for an aquatic future

After soaring high and flaming out in Hollywood, Abe, a celebrated bodybuilder, returns home across the 405 to Venice Beach, where it all started. But Abe's beloved boardwalk feels different. There’s a nasty bite to the sea breeze, a slew of unexplained overdoses putting the gym rats on edge, strange supernatural sightings on the pier hinting at something primordial lurking beneath the surface of sun-dappled Venice. And Jay—his old lifting partner, his former roommate, the one person he truly abandoned in his pursuit of fame—has disappeared, leaving Alice, his ex, alone to take care of their infant son.

The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.

Detroit Threat Management is the chronicle of an urban paramilitary, the people who join it, the man who leads them, and the city from which they have sprouted to fill a disturbing gap in public service. Filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman spent over two years embedded with the VIPERS and their ambitious leader, Commander Brown, gathering moments both macabre and tender.

Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman tells the story of the real and manufactured causes behind the fall of Chuck E. Cheese which epitomizes the rise of the leveraged buy-out in corporate America.

With music by Daniel Bachman & Humanherb, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman traces the significance of the Newsfeed launch, from the initial rage it engendered to its precipitation of the algorithm-dominated status quo of current-day digital media.