Jared Passante

As a child, Jared spent hours bringing his action figures to life on the pool table of his childhood home near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His bright young mind and fertile imagination didn't go unnoticed; his parents bought him a cheap camera. Jared had his first taste of filmmaking at a very early age; he was seven. He commissioned his childhood friends nearly every weekend of his youth to help fuel his newfound passion. Time flew by in school, as he was perpetually focused on his next production. When he was ten years old, Jared's father unwittingly shaped his son's destiny by taking him to the movies. The epic scope of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" was just the inspiration that he needed to decide that he would devote his life to film.