Jason Pollock (Director)
Jason Pollock (Director)
Jason Pollock is an American director.
He is founder of Boom Content, a creative agency operating in NYC, LA, DC, and STL.
Career
Prior to making his own films, Pollock worked with director and producer to famed director Michael Moore from 2003 - 2006. Throughout this time Pollock aided Moore with several high profile films such as: Dude, Where's My Country?, 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'Slacker Uprising'. Pollock coordinated a 60 cities in 30 day tour for Moore on his Slacker Uprising Tour in 2004. In 2005 Pollock became of one of the 5 original founders of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival.
Pollock's first feature documentary film, 'The Youngest Candidate,' follows four teens running for public office in America.
The film was co-produced by Oscar winner Lawrence Bender and David Letterman's Worldwide Pants. 'The Youngest Candidate' had its world premiere in 2009 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and its national television premiere on The Documentary Channel in 2010.
In 2008 and 2012, Pollock also launched multi-city speaking tours around America's schools to get out the youth vote.
In March 2017, Pollock premiered the film Stranger Fruit, a documentary about The Shooting of Michael Brown, a young black man killed by police in 2014. The film has never-before-seen footage of the shooting that implicates the guilt of police. [3]