Jake Boritt (Director/Producer) recently completed work as Associate Producer/Camera for the A&E documentary Crime Ink , on New York crime reporters . Currently he is producing a short film for the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation to be continuously shown to the nearly 2 million annual visitors. In 2003 he worked as Associate Producer/Camera for Teale Productions on the AMC documentary Surviving Seagal , investigating connections between Hollywood and the mafia. This year he will continue on the topic for a 1-hour program to air on CBS's 48 Hours . In July 2003, he shot an anthropological documentary in the interior jungle of Borneo on a remote village's new satellite internet connection.  

In 2002 he wrote, produced, directed, and shot a historical documentary on the Gettysburg area titled, Adams County USA, which aired on public television, screened at National Geographic, and is used in schools (AdamsCountyUSA.com).   Ken Burns said: "Jake Boritt has made a really good film. His direction is sure, confidence pours from every cut, and the stories he tells are stories I want to hear. Mr. Boritt proves impressively that all good history is local. Bravo."   Director Ronald Maxwell said, "So young a filmmaker with so mature a grasp of history is a promising sign for the rising generation of documentarians." Also in 2002, Boritt worked with David Grubin, helping research and produce two films, Young Doctor Freud and Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm .   He graduated from Johns Hopkins University. He   has received a NEH Younger Scholars history grant and was raised on a historic farm in Gettysburg.   He lives in New York City.