He also directed an array of TV productions including 21 Jump Street, with Johnny Depp, Sirens, and Going To Extremes.
Prior to his career as a director, Wacks served as Vice President of Production at the Samuel Goldwyn Company.
His work has been seen at numerous international film festivals including Sundance, Montreal, Tokyo, Florence, London, Leipzig, Leeds, Cape Town, Deauville, New York, Munich, and Berlin.
Wacks has written several screenplays including Recoil, based on the Jim Thompson novel, No Cure for Love, My African Heart, Coldsleep Lullaby, and Stuck.
He is the founding director of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at the City University of New York (CUNY) and served as Professor and Chair.
Wacks is the Founding Director of the Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and Professor in Film at Brooklyn College.