Jacob Moe is a researcher, filmmaker and translator. He received his BA in Politics from Pomona College, a Certificate in Literary Translation from the Academy of Athens and MFA in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He co-founded and directed the Syros International Film Festival (2013-2023) and since 2019 is founder and director of Archipelago Network, an initiative for research and documentation of material knowledge and audiovisual culture in the Cyclades islands. His research practice involves community media, radio and film documentary work, with a focus on peer-to-peer methodologies for knowledge building in island communities. In 2025 he was a fellow at the Athens-based Research Center for the Humanities, implementing the research project “Archival Practices and Traditional Knowledge of the Aegean islands, 1900-today.”

His English language translations of Modern Greek literature, history and theatre have been published by Yale University Press, Penguin and Hurst, among others.