Hi, I'm Jared!
I’m what you might call a “creative suit”—a writer/director/producer type with a deep appreciation for cascading formulas in spreadsheets and parsimonious drafting in contracts. For the past seven years, I’ve been making documentaries (including Emmy-winning Sundance premiere QUIET HEROES) and developing scripted content, with our first narrative feature going into production next year. Before that, I was collecting degrees at the University of San Diego and the University of Utah, where I made the ill-advised-but-ultimately-survivable choice to pursue law school, business school, and film school simultaneously. I’m a community-builder (co-founder of the Impact Guild), democracy-lover (on the board of Lightspark Foundation), and amateur mixologist (who’s created over 60 signature cocktails for private events). In high school, I played both Prince Charming and the Elephant Man, demonstrating paradoxical range that some surmise still haunts my dating life today. Other current memberships include NEXUS Global Impact Society, TED, Human Gathering, the Television Academy, and Film Independent Arts Circle. When I’m not producing a shoot, organizing a conference, or deciding whether my color-coded closet is worth the upkeep (it is), I can be found ghostbusting in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery down the street from my house.