A multitalented renaissance man in the tradition of Gordon Parks, filmmaker/novelist Jason Gilmore’s road to Hollywood was clear cut. A child prodigy who read and wrote at age 2, the Toledo, Ohio native wrote poetry, short stories and stage plays throughout junior high and high school. He decided he wanted to be a film director just before his senior year.
He studied film at the University of Pittsburgh and directed several student films and plays there, including his own one-act Playing Solitaire, for which he won an NAACP Award at the age of 17. After graduation, he relocated to Los Angeles with an armful of his own scripts. After several years of fruitless meetings with Hollywood producers, Jason used $7, 000 of his own money to write, direct and star in a 29-minute short film, How Shawn Parker Fell in Love, which premiered at the 2007 San Francisco Black Film Festival.
His screenplays have been recognized by the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab and the Texas Film Institute. In addition, Jason has been a freelance journalist and has profiled Jimi Hendrix, Kanye West, Michael Jackson and countless others for a host of online and print magazines. He is a regular contributor to Intrepid Media and ThaHipHop.com.
Up next, he is rewriting his coming of age novel, Somewhere Between Here and There, and looking to write several new scripts. He has also been commissioned to write a TV pilot based loosely on his childhood for Storytime Entertainment.
people who get it
Stevie Wonder The Beatles Marvin Gaye Donny Hathaway Amy Winehouse Quincy Jones A Tribe Called Quest Sam Cooke The Monkees Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings The Spinners Weldon Irvine The Jackson 5 Little Brother Big Daddy Kane NERD Mary Lou Williams Little Barrie Jill Scott Sergio Mendes McCoy Tyner OutKast Spoon Nostalgia 77 Regina Spektor Kanye West Norah Jones Ghostface Sly and the Family Stone Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Miles Davis Prince Chrisette Michele Gil Scott-Heron Ramsey Lewis Nas Sara Bareilles Dusty Springfield Elzhi New Edition Antonio Carlos Jobim
truffaut hitchcock welles scorsese spike (lee and jonze) kubrick anderson (wes paul and lindsay) capra minnelli de sica kazan tarantino polanski spielberg keaton jewison fosse ashby cukor mccarey wilder schlesinger lumet mankiewicz nichols wise renoir sturges coppola (francis and sofia) landis edwards kelly
besides sports I have no use for it
The Bible, Purpose Driven Life, About A Boy, Third Girl from the Left, White Teeth, The Beautiful and the Damned, Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Haygoods of Columbus, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye: What's Going On and the Last Days of the Motown Sound, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Interpreter of Maladies, If Beale Street Could Talk
Jesus of Nazareth