Biography

Award-winning filmmaker Jacob Strunk hails from the small town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. His films have screened in competition and by invitation across the country and in Europe. He was short-listed for both the Student Academy Award and the Pushcart Prize in fiction and has received filmmaking grants from Kodak and Fotokem. Strunk has lectured on filmmaking at festivals and universities across the country and holds both a BA in film production and MFA in creative writing. He lives in Los Angeles with a few framed movie posters and the ghost of his cat, Stephen.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards for his film Valhalla (2003).

(on "Valhalla") I made it because I had to, because it was in me. And as you can imagine, things like that should not stay in you.

(on "Valhalla") The hope with all these weird, brutal, psychotic films is that it's cathartic and that other people can somehow connect with it. I don't make films on a soap box. There's not any moral. There's not one statement that can tell you what the film is about. I just made it because I had to.