Alum of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program, Jake Katofsky gravitates towards producing emotionally moving, character driven stories told from new perspectives. He has produced dozens of projects ranging from commercials to full features. Jake was an assistant on 2014 LA Film Festival Best Picture Winner CUT!, and the following year co-wrote and produced a baseball romantic comedy entitled 108 STITCHES that had a limited theatrical run in and international distribution On Demand.
Since then, Jake associate produced feature LIVE CARGO starring Lakeith Stanfield, Dre Hemingway, and Robert Wisdom, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. He also has four short films making a splash in the festival circle; most notably ASIA A, which won a Student DGA Award and was named a Semi-Finalist at the Student Academy Awards.
After suffering a spinal cord injury, a college basketball player struggles between hoping for recovery and accepting his new life as a paraplegic.