Occupation Director Role Director Name Jared Pelletier | Website jaredpelletier.com Years active 2008–present | |
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Born 29 November 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-11-29 ) Education Brock University, Cardinal Carter Catholic High School | ||
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Jared Pelletier (born 29 November 1990) is a Canadian director, responsible for a number of short films including In the Hearts of Men and the Machinima series Omega.
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Early life
Pelletier was born and raised in Aurora, Ontario, where he attended Cardinal Carter Catholic High School. In 2008, he graduated high school and attended Brock University studying Sport Management. Interested in film-making since the age of 6, he left the university to focus on it. In August 2010, he graduated from the Toronto Film and Media College. He has also studied business and law in entertainment by correspondence through the University of California Los Angeles.
Career
Pelletier's first success came in 2009 when he was 18, with a shortlist at the Cannes Film Festival for The Collision. In March 2011 his World War II epic In the Hearts of Men took Best Director, Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing awards at an American film festival, the Arizona Film and Media Expo.
Soon after filming In the Hearts of Men, he moved on to Halo: Faith, based on the Halo series of games, which has generated a wide viral following. In April 2011 he signed with Los Angeles-based Machinima.com. The YoungCuts Film Festival announced that his next project would be Bioshock, for a 2013 release. The first Bioshock trailer was released on 25 November 2011.
In October 2012, Pelletier completed principal photography on his first major series through the Machinima deal titled Omega.
In October 2013, Pelletier returned with a Call of Duty film released on Machinima.
Awards
Pelletier's short film The Collision was shortlisted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, when he was 18. In March 2011, his World War II piece In the Hearts of Men swept all major production awards at the Arizona Film and Media Expo, including Best Director, Best Film, Best Editing, along with Best Cinematography for director of photography Erik Tallek.