Jason Zada

Jason Zada is an awardwinning storyteller and director In 2016 his first theatrical feature film The Forest was released into theaters by Focus Features Previously Jason was most recognized for the Emmy Awardwinning cinematic personal experience Take This Lollipop which has been seen by over 100 million people all over the world The film gathered 13 million Facebook Likes making it the fastest growing FB app of all time Jasons unique blend of multiscreen storytelling landed him in AdweekCreativitys Top 50 most influential creative personalities of 2012 Starting at an early age Jason was attracted to nontraditional storytelling Creating Super8 films programming text adventures on his Commodore 64 and video games formed a strong foundation as both an avid geek and storyteller During the 1990s Jason spent time telling stories in CDROMs and on the Internet In the fall of 2000 Jason started the digital advertising agency Evolution Bureau and over the next 8 years grew EVB into a 65person worldrenowned agency This led to the holding company Omnicom to acquire a majority stake in the company As a commercial director Jason has worked with some of the most prominent advertising agencies in the world such as Weiden Kennedy Crispin Porter Bogusky Sid Lee Leo Burnett Saatchi Saatchi RPA YR Draftfcb Kaplan Thaler and Grey on a variety of digital and broadcast projects A lover of telling stories in front of strangers Jason is often asked to speak at a variety of industry events including Cannes South by Southwest and FITC Jasons work has appeared in New York Times Forbes Fast Company Adweek Shoot Magazine Communication Arts IndieWire Contagious and a variety of other film and advertising publications