Biography
Fabio Jafet is an award winning director/editor with nearly two decades worth of experience in entertainment and broadcast journalism. He has done everything from editing the most watched video on YouTube in 2009, Pitbull's I Know You Want Me (190 million views to date), to winning a news Emmy for a documentary in Afghanistan, to directing the critically acclaimed documentary feature 'Waking Up Dead'. His career started in broadcast journalism in 1989 where he won a total of 9 Emmys with 13 nominations, covering life changing events such as: The Oklahoma City Bombing, Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination, The Historic Papal Visit to Cuba, OJ's Trial and many others.
His first major commercial project was directing Skid Row's full-length band DVD titled 'Under The Skin'. He then became the in-house director for Aezra/EMI records and traveled from London to Los Angeles directing EPK's and music videos for artists such as Magna-Fi, Deep Blue Something, Billy Miles, The Toadies and many more.
Expanding his directorial repertoire, Fabio's next project was to direct the documentary feature film 'Waking Up Dead', a controversial insight into the world of sex, drugs and rock n' roll. The movie received critical acclaim and was featured in several film festivals around the country and played in select theaters in New York and Ft. Lauderdale.
Immediately following 'Waking Up Dead' he edited the award winning documentaries, Fatboy and Facing The Habit.
That film landed him editing projects with director/writer Tom Holland ('Child's Play', 'Fright Night') on a drama pilot featuring Patrick Bergin titled 'Driven' and a horror web series titled '5 or Die'.
Fabio continues to work in music, directing and editing projects from artists such as Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, Lil' Wayne, Gus G., from Ozzy Osbourne's band, Children Of Bodom, Temple Of Brutality, Nicola Fasano, Billy Blue, Flo Rida and many more. Fabio edited Pitbull's smash hit 'I Know You Want Me' which ended up being the number one music video of 2009 on Youtube with over a 190 million views to date. It currently one of the most watched YouTube video of all time.
His most recent video, Enrique Iglesias's "I Like It" was nominated for a 2010 MTV Music Video Award for Best Dance Video. Fabio was the 2nd Unit director and scripted and directed the entire narrative of the video with the cast of Jersey Shore.
In 2011 he directed a series of commercials for ESP Guitars featuring Gus G. from Ozzy Osbourne's band and Alexi Laiho from Children Of Bodom.
