Biography
Jacob Zetino was born on November 7, 1983, in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. After his parents had separated, he moved with his mother and brother to the beautiful wine country, Healdsburg, California, Married (March 2021) to Pernille Zetino, an Internationally Published Fashion Photographer.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science from The Los Angeles Film School, California in their producing program, achieving Summa Cum Laude and is a member of the National Honor Society of the Entertainments Arts.
He has been featured on Thrive Global, Yahoo! Finance twice and Forbes NYC. He has also produced several films and television projects. He has won multiple awards for several films & television series he has produced. His most recent project Sins Unveiled has won 6 awards one for the Humanitarian award, with a cast of Matthew & Russell Denis Lewis (Netflix Godless, AMC Interview With a Vampire) Robin Shelby (Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters) and Aaron Schwartz (Guardians of the Galaxy & Mighty Ducks II)
Before embarking on his producing career he served in the United States Army for over 10 years and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant, with deployments to parts of the world including Afghanistan, he then separated from the US Army at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California in 2012 where he served as the transportation NCOIC for all dignitaries, general officers, senators, royal dignitaries, and various celebrity talents that had visited the installation.
He then graduated from Divers Institute of Technology, Seattle, Washington as a commercial diver (deep-sea diver, engineer) working inland/off shore with dives of depths over 200 feet.
Graduated from the conservatory for acting at the New York Film Academy, Manhattan, New York.
Upon moving back to California, he acted in short films such as "The Working Actor's Audition" Starring Kathleen Kinmont (Halloween 4, Renegade) and Caleb Thomas(Modern Family, Lost in the West), he also appeared in the series "Preface to Being Jaded".
He continues to work endlessly in developing more content and has also begun a film & television studio Dapper Penguin Entertainment, founded in Beverly Hills, CA with Subsiduaries Dapper Penguin Productions, Dapper Penguin Cubed, ZEROYO Productions and JPZ Media (Costa Rica). He and his teams continue to create award-winning content across all platforms.
