Jason Cohen

Jason Cohen

Jason Cohen is an American filmmaker of documentaries , which in the Academy Awards in 2014 for his work in Facing Fear for the Oscar in the category Best Short Documentary was nominated.

Life

Cohen studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he worked as a sports reporter for the student newspaper The Daily Cardinal and as an intern for the sports channel WMTV . Cohen has worked with director Steven Okazaki as a producer since the beginning of his film career in the early 2000s . In addition to his documentaries, Cohen has also produced a feature film, Opal (2010), which tells the story of the author Opal Whiteley . He was also involved in numerous commercials, including for Nike , Gatorade and Microsoft . For his film project Four Women, One World , Cohen traveled to Uganda , India , Haiti , Spain and Italy . He now lives in San Francisco .

Filmography

• 2000: Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (documentary, producer and sound engineer)
• 2007: White Light / Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (documentary, producer and additional sound)
• 2010: Opal (producer)
• 2013: Four Women, One World (documentary, director, screenwriter and producer)
• 2013: Approximately Nels Cline (documentary, producer)
• 2013: Facing Fear (documentary short film, director, screenwriter, producer, additional sound engineer and cameraman)

Web links

• Jason Cohen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1454053599007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://host.madison.com/news/local/uw-grad-jason-cohen-nominated-for-oscar-for-best-short/article_43d7d850-a362-59c7-8f3c-539a50de0197.html
3. ↑ http://www.facingfearmovie.com/bio-jason.html