Scott Jacobs was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in the lake country of Waukesha County. He attended Harvard College, where he became executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, and started his career in journalism as the state house reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel. He moved to Chicago in 1972 to join the Chicago Sun-Times, but left four years later on a leave of absence to pursue video journalism. He spent a year traveling the country with a video portapak making short documentaries later released as True Life Video Stories later released as Road to the Presidency and author of three books on the 1996, 2004 and 2008 presidential races. In 2017, he was a finalist for the Chicago Journalism Association's Dorothy Storke Award for best columnist. Jacobs continues to work with Kurtis staging major events for non-profit organizations such as the Chicago Community Trust, Global Health Initiative, and The Chicago Public Library Foundation Carl Sandburg Awards. Marty Zipco's Ballroom is his first feature film production.
Graduated from the American Film Institute in 2007 with a MFA in Film Editing.
Was the first editor from AFI to be awarded the highly sought after editorial internship at Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2006. This was also the first time that the internship didnt go to a USC student.
(August 2008) Working as Post PA on the feature "Four Christmases"
Post Production Assistant on the feature film, "Defiance".
