With over ten years of experience in the film industry, Jared Moshé is currently filming his directorial debut in New Mexico this October 2011. A fan of western films and a civil war buff, Moshé wrote a classic western script set in the post-Civil War New Mexico of 1870 that will be his feature debut as both writer and director.
After graduating magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in English and a concentration in film, Moshé began his career in film development at Magnet Entertainment. While at Magnet, he worked closely with Peter Saraf and Ed Saxon during two productions: the thriller, The Truth about Charlie, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins; and the critically acclaimed Adaptation directed by Spike Jonze and starring Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage. Moshé moved on from creative development and worked as an executive at the Film Sales Company. While there, he was closely involved in the domestic and international sale of over 75 films including My Architect; Kontroll; Fahrenheit 9/11; Imagine Me and You; CSA; and Academy Award-winner Born Into Brothels.
Moshé used his off hours to pursue his passion for writing by both creating a personal blog and working on various screenplays. In 2003 Moshé’s feature-length screenplay The Low Country was selected as a quarterfinalist by the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, the world’s most esteemed screenwriting competition awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. IFP/New York selected this same screenplay to participate in the emerging narrative division at its annual Market. His personal blog expanded over the years and eventually became one of many high-profile blogs housed on the indieWIRE website, a news site dubbed by Forbes Magazine as the “online heartbeat of the world’s independent film community.”
In 2006 he became a partner and president of Sidetrack Films, the production and financing company behind HBO’s Emmy-Nominated documentary Favela Rising. Charged with managing $4 million in film investments, he reviewed and vetted project budgets, brokered international and domestic distribution deals, and crafted festival and distribution strategies while simultaneously overseeing the filmmakers on each individual film. In four years, he produced six feature films in different capacities.
Moshé associate produced Destricted, a compilation of films directed by leading visual artists and filmmakers including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gasper Noé, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor Wood. The film had its world premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and its international premiere at Un Certain Regard in Cannes a few months later. IFC Films, Revolver, and Katapult Productions acquired the film for distribution.
Moshé also associate produced Kurt Cobain: About A Son, a moving meditation on the late musician based on 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews. The film had its world premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best documentary in 2007, and garnered an inventive distribution deal through Icon Entertainment, Shout Factory, and the Sundance Channel in conjunction Diesel Watches.
Moshé executive produced Low and Behold, the first narrative feature shot in post-Katrina New Orleans. After premiering at Sundance in 2007, the film went on to win numerous awards at festivals across the country.
He executive produced Beautiful Losers, the award-winning documentary featuring Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, and Barry McGee. In 2008, the film screened at SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas and internationally at the Locarno Film Festival in Italy. In addition to overseeing all aspects of production and post-production for the financier, he sold the film in multiple territories, and crafted an innovative and successful distribution strategy with Nike and Boost Mobile to release the film theatrically in the United States.
Most recently, he produced two films in which he was involved creatively and strategically. His dark drama, Silver Tongues, won the Audience Award for best narrative feature at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival, and recently had its international premiere at the 2011 San Sebastian Film Festival. Silver Tongues will be premiering theatrically in November 2011. His second film Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel is a documentary about the legendary Hollywood filmmaker Roger Corman and includes interviews with such luminaries as Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, and Martin Scorcese. Corman’s World played as part of the official selection at the 2011 Festival de Cannes and in the documentary competition section at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released November 2011 through Anchor Bay Films and A&E.
Moshé has been a regular panelist and juror at such film festivals as the Toronto Film Festival, SXSW, The Starz Denver Film Festival, The Gen Art Film Festival, The Rio International Film Festival and Independent Film Week. In 2011 he was named a Trans Atlantic Partner Fellow as part of joint collaboration between the Erich Pommer Institute, Strategic Partners & the IFP.
