About.
films by hand and mind
JAY ZHAO 赵佳童
Based in New York City.
An anti-Vanitas film director.
A working-in-progress cinematographer.
Another commercial videographer and editor.
A human like you.
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Jay Zhao specialises in film directing and cinematography.
He offers creative and crew services: Commercials, MV, Web Drama Series, Videography, and Films.
Crew Roles Available:
Directing Dept: 1st AD, Script Supervisor.
Cam Dept: Cam Operator, 1st AC.
Electricity: Gaffer, Best Boy.
Post-Production: Davinci Resolve Studio.
Distribution: Trailer Production, Poster, EPK, Subtitle Supervisor.
Key Collaborators:
NetEase Game’s “Eggy Party” TVC 网易游戏《蛋仔派对》
ReelShort Exclusive
Please contact Jay directly to help shape your stories.
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Disclaimer: I hate writing in third-person narration to introduce myself as a filmmaker, so let’s give up doing it.
Born and raised in Shenzhen, China, I began my journey with storytelling from a school lunch break: my friends and I escaped from the campus for 2 hours and made a video using an iPhone 5 about a superhero saving a dog (Yes, my debut, perhaps).
I was later sent to Sydney, Australia, for high school and my Bachelor of Media degree at UNSW. There, I won the first prize for my short film and got a chance to be screened in the cinema at Palace Sydney, Broadway.
And the Pandora box opened: I made a sci-fi micro-feature “Relove” and went to the Sydney Lift-Off Film Festival and Serbest International Film Festival, the same year Leo Messi won the FIFA World Cup. After my second year at uni, I became active in numerous roles and productions, from commercials to vertical series. The very last short I directed before graduating, “Palm Parade”, was listed as a Semi-Finalist at Flicker’s Rhode Island Film Festival and streamed on TV at Channel 31.
To me, the journey of storytelling means a process of self-discovery, an imagination production, where the micro world and the macro world are interconnected. Hence, I gradually built my mass interest to explore themes of individual identity confronting the collective..
Well, stories never stop. Maybe I will rewrite this piece someday and realize how silly I am now. But I’m glad you read till here.