Background
Yakin, who is Jewish, was born in New York City. His father"s family is from Syria and Egypt, and his mother"s family is from Poland.
(Set in New York's bustling diamond and jewellery trade, t...)
Set in New York's bustling diamond and jewellery trade, this screenplay tells of the struggle of a young woman to take control of her life amid the stifling pressures of living in a Hassidic community. The book includes an interview in which Boaz Yakin discusses the evolution of his film-making.
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Yakin, who is Jewish, was born in New York City. His father"s family is from Syria and Egypt, and his mother"s family is from Poland.
He attended the Bronx High School of Science, where he was classmates in 1983 with actor Jon Cryer. Yakin studied filmmaking at New York"s City College.
He has written such screenplays as Fresh and A Price Above Rubies, and he directed the feature film Remember the Titans, among others He moved on to New York University, and made his first deal for a screenplay at age 19. After finishing school, Yakin worked in the film, developing projects for several companies, and saw his first screenplay reach the screen in 1989, when The Punisher, a vehicle for Dolph Lundgren, was released.
Yakin"s next screenplay was The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen.
Wanting to take on more personal material, Yakin drew from his experiences growing up in New York"s inner city for his next screenplay, Fresh. Yakin opted to direct his screenplay for Fresh himself.
Yakin went back to his youth for inspiration on his next project His experience with the Chassidic community informed his screenplay for A Price Above Rubies.
Yakin rebounded with his next assignment, which was his first film that he directed but did not write.
Remember the Titans was a major box office success, and moved him to the upper tier of bankable Hollywood talents. His Holocaust drama Death in Love debuted in January 2008. Yakin describes it as a movie about the failure of the family and inability to change your past
In 2010, it was announced that Yakin would direct Sympathy for the Devil, with Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Duhamel in the cast.
The project was still in development as of 2014. Yakin"s most recent film is the family picture Max for Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released on June 26, 2015.
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He was a member of the United States Dramatic Jury at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.