Jacob Fertig is a documentary filmmaker working across shorts, features, and interactive media. His films have played at festivals including South by Southwest, Hot Docs, AFI, NOFF, and Doc10, and been published by Scientific American and New York Magazine. His archival producing work spans museums to magazines, including permanent exhibits at Ellis Island and The Holocaust Center.

 

He has pitched projects at AFO, AIDC, Big Sky Pitch, Edinburgh Pitch, DOK Leipzig, and Ji.hlava New Visions Forum. His projects have received support from the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, Tribeca Institute, Doc Society, Film Independent, Jewish Story Partners, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, Docs by the Sea, and thousands of individual donors.

 

He is a 2026 JFI Filmmaker-in-Residence, a former Film Independent Producing Lab Fellow, Doc Society Art & Impact Fellow, Full Frame Fellow, NYU Feature Development Studio Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at Humanity in Action. He holds a BFA in Film & Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and an MPA in Public Policy and Nonprofit Management from NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Jacob is Co-Founder of Denizen Studios in New York.