Jason Pierre

Jason Pierre is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker and writer born to first-generation Jamaican immigrants and raised in the South Bronx. He received a BFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. He was a production supervisor for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, where he produced videos across several BuzzFeed YouTube channels and series. He has written four episodes of BuzzFeed’s animated The Good Advice Cupcake Show for Facebook Watch, and all the episodes of The Era, BuzzFeed’s Cocoa Butter channel’s show on Facebook Watch. He was then a staff writer on Season 3 of the CW show In The Dark, and co-wrote episode 6, “Arcade Fire.” He returned for Season 4 and wrote episode 8, “Tequila Mockingbird.” His 2018 short film Existential Donut follows a man on a quest to help a donut find its hole, and has screened at thirteen film festivals. He has a passion for art, animation, science fiction, and discovering ‘80s movies he never knew existed.