M.F.A., Documentary Media, Image Centre University
B.A., Minor in Music Technology, McGill University
Jason’s work as camera operator, sound recorder and/or editor have been featured on the CBC’s Nature of Things and The Fifth Estate, TVO’s Why Poverty Series, in a number of theatrical documentaries, and on television news in Brazil, Venezuela, and the USA. Rhythms of Resistance, Jason’s MFA thesis film about artists resisting against police violence in Rio de Janeiro has received 2 international festival awards and has screened in festivals on four continents. Since 2010, Jason has been in production on his first feature documentary; State of Exception about families facing forced evictions in Rio de Janeiro before the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Jason directed and produced all of the video dailies screening in theatres throughout the Hot Docs festival in 2011 and 2012. In 2011, his documentary short Demur won the People’s Choice Award at the Cabbagetown short film festival and was recipient of a Canadian Cinema Editors Award. In 2010, his documentation of police brutality at the G20 Summit in Toronto was commissioned by the CBC to confront police chief Bill Blair in his first televised interview after the Summit. In 2008, Jason created the participatory photography component of a youth project in a number of Brazilian favelas that won Brazil’s UN Millennium Development Goals Award. Jason was recipient of the Toronto Met Gold Medal in 2013.