Jason MooreJason Moore is a director whose work is performance- and character-driven. He studied acting and directing at the University of California, Los Angeles (BFA, Theater Arts and MFA, Film Directing). Jason’s short film Don’t Eat the Chili at the Detour iner won the $25,000 James Bridges Award for Directing in his second year of graduate school and his thesis film, Paradise, Nebraska won UCLA’s top prize, the Spotlight Award for best film of the year. Paradise has screened in nearly fifty national and international film festivals, garnering awards in many. It’s also one of the most profitable short films to come out of UCLA, having been licensed to over twenty domestic and international networks, including Showtime, the Sundance Channel, Universal, and Atom Films.Since graduating UCLA, Jason has been directing commercials for television and the web. His first commercial, Nike “No Style”, went to the #1 spot on Adcritic.com and stayed there for five weeks. It was an internet phenomenon, downloaded and emailed hundreds of thousands of times. The spot gained media attention with articles in Creativity, Boards, and Shoot Magazine and was featured in Campaign Screen's DVD of the world's most creative and innovative commercials. Recent spots for the US Department of Transportation (“Ryman” and “Robert”) earned Jason a place in the 2009 Shoot New Directors Showcase, which highlights the best new directors of the year. Jason is currently producing the Variety Magazine Online Screening Series, a twenty part webisode series featuring A-list writers and directors discussing their Academy Award nominated films.In addition to his directorial work, Jason has been teaching college-level video production courses for nearly a decade in both Los Angeles and New York. Jason's pedagogical style focuses on hands-on lab work and straightforward lectures and discussions. Having served for two years as the Department Chair of Video Production at the Art Institute of New York City, Jason has had the opportunity to build a program for the twenty-first century, developing state-approved curricula that addresses the changing character of the field. Jason has designed more than 20 college-level courses.' Read More Read Less