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Films and Filmmakers Series: Director Geremy Jasper

December 5, 2017, 7:00 pm
Location School of Communication and Media - 1040
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Geremy Jasper is a writer / director born and bred in New Jersey. As a co-founder of the production company LEGS, Jasper co-directed VMA-nominated videos for Florence + The Machine’s “Dog Days Are Over” and Selena Gomez’s “Love You Like a Love Song.” His direction for the Target “Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular,” a 20 minute live event which transformed New York’s Standard Hotel into a giant light board with over one hundred dancers, won a TED Prize, the prestigious Gold Outdoor Lion at the 2011 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and an induction into MoMA’s permanent collection. He wrote and directed the experimental short film “Outlaws” for Belstaff (starring David Beckham and Harvey Keitel), as well as international campaigns for Diesel, Evian, Diet Coke and Heineken.

Jasper’s first feature film, Patti Cake$, was a breakout hit at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival landing him on Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch list. The film played at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight and will be released theatrically by Fox Searchlight this summer. A lifelong music freak, Jasper also wrote all the movie’s original songs, which will be released as a soundtrack album on Republic Records.