Directing
Jason Rosette
Jason Rosette is a creative, award-winning writer-director, filmmaker, performer and educator with over three decades of experience producing motion media in the USA and abroad. He has directed content across the USA, Central America, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar, with a regional focus on ASEAN-APAC since 2005. A graduate of NYU Film, his first independently produced drama (shot and produced on 16mm in 1991), was called 'Charlie's Box'. Later, he self-launched his career in New York with the 2000 grassroots feature documentary 'BookWars', shot while working as a Manhattan sidewalk bookseller. Praised by the New York Film Critics Circle, the LA Times and other major publications, 'BookWars' won Best Documentary at the New York Underground Film Festival and entered the Museum of Modern Art's circulating collection in 2016. Returning to New Mexico, he wrote, produced, and directed the multicultural sci-fi feature 'Lost in New Mexico'. In 2005, he expanded into ASEAN-APAC, directing advocacy documentaries for NGOs like WildAid, Conservation International, and USAID's DAI. For the documentary 'Have Forest Have Life', equipment was hauled into remote areas via off-road motorcycle, and he coached indigenous participants, designing a jungle voiceover booth from local canopy materials. Independent Asian projects include the Vietnam War drama 'Freedom Deal', rockumentary 'Vuth Learns to Rock', experimental 'Bangkok Traffic', travelogue Burma Bong, the eco-doc 'Crab Ladies'. He also works as a line producer and location manager. In Cambodia, he and Khmer colleagues launched CamboFest, the country's first post-Khmer Rouge international film festival, alongside the Thailand based Bangkok IndieFest. From 2010 to 2011, he worked as a forensic editor and script doctor in Bangkok, including work with animation house Imagimax. From 2013 to 2014, he served at the U.S. Embassy in Yangon (Myanmar) at the American Center as an educator and youth group monitor. Other Asian directing credits include the Gone Marshall music video Go On, Mysterious Workers atop Bokor Mountain, and children's welfare PSAs. He is developing new cross-border film projects., including the future dystopian 'Malone Two Five'. He works non-exclusively with Camerado Media
Acting credits
6.8The gritty world of New York City street booksellers is exposed in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Made on location at the sidewalk book tables of New York by a fellow street bookseller, 'BookWars' explores the other side of the book tables along the streets of the Village, on the Lower East Side, along 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City. See the Mayor, the University and the NYPD try to shut them down!
BookWars
2000
8.0Susan, a grieving single mother, embarks on a desperate cross-country journey through the New Mexico desert after losing her daughter, determined to find a maverick animal-cloning expert who claims he can bring her back. Accompanied by Javier, an undocumented immigrant, she's trailed by a rookie federal agent, while a local Native American potter races to raise his own daughter's college tuition, their paths destined to collide
Lost in New Mexico: The Strange Tale of Susan Hero
2009
NRRip the Falcon is a lone wanderer searching for something he cannot define as he travels into the reaches of a harsh world.
Rip the Falcon
2021
Behind the camera
6.8The gritty world of New York City street booksellers is exposed in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Made on location at the sidewalk book tables of New York by a fellow street bookseller, 'BookWars' explores the other side of the book tables along the streets of the Village, on the Lower East Side, along 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City. See the Mayor, the University and the NYPD try to shut them down!
BookWars
2000
6.8The gritty world of New York City street booksellers is exposed in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Made on location at the sidewalk book tables of New York by a fellow street bookseller, 'BookWars' explores the other side of the book tables along the streets of the Village, on the Lower East Side, along 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City. See the Mayor, the University and the NYPD try to shut them down!
BookWars
2000
6.8The gritty world of New York City street booksellers is exposed in a remarkable story that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Made on location at the sidewalk book tables of New York by a fellow street bookseller, 'BookWars' explores the other side of the book tables along the streets of the Village, on the Lower East Side, along 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City. See the Mayor, the University and the NYPD try to shut them down!
BookWars
2000
10.0May 4, 1970 - During the Vietnam War, a combined US & Army of South Vietnam military operation enters Cambodia to locate and destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries. A Cambodian youth named Samnang (‘Lucky’) and an ornery but likable wedding musician make their way through the conflict. They encounter landmines, surreal Cambodian ghosts known as 'Arbs', and marauding helicopters as they go.
Freedom Deal: The Story of Lucky
2013
10.0May 4, 1970 - During the Vietnam War, a combined US & Army of South Vietnam military operation enters Cambodia to locate and destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries. A Cambodian youth named Samnang (‘Lucky’) and an ornery but likable wedding musician make their way through the conflict. They encounter landmines, surreal Cambodian ghosts known as 'Arbs', and marauding helicopters as they go.
Freedom Deal: The Story of Lucky
2013
8.0Susan, a grieving single mother, embarks on a desperate cross-country journey through the New Mexico desert after losing her daughter, determined to find a maverick animal-cloning expert who claims he can bring her back. Accompanied by Javier, an undocumented immigrant, she's trailed by a rookie federal agent, while a local Native American potter races to raise his own daughter's college tuition, their paths destined to collide
Lost in New Mexico: The Strange Tale of Susan Hero
2009
8.0Susan, a grieving single mother, embarks on a desperate cross-country journey through the New Mexico desert after losing her daughter, determined to find a maverick animal-cloning expert who claims he can bring her back. Accompanied by Javier, an undocumented immigrant, she's trailed by a rookie federal agent, while a local Native American potter races to raise his own daughter's college tuition, their paths destined to collide
Lost in New Mexico: The Strange Tale of Susan Hero
2009