Biography
Jason Allen is a writer and filmmaker from Nashville, TN. He is also a wilderness guide, nature photographer and award-winning journalist. His first produced screenplay was the 2009 feature film Lucky Fritz starring Corey Feldman and Julia Dietze. Since then he's won Best Screenplay honors at the Nashville Film Festival, San Diego Film Awards, Mountain of Laughs Comedy Fest, TSA Screenwriting Awards, and Artlightenment Film Festival, and is a seven-time finalist of the Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. His writing credits also include the award-winning short films You Destroy Me, That Smell, American Sock, and The Seashell. American Sock won Best Short Film at eight different film festivals, while That Smell screened at over 80 festivals in 15 countries, including the prestigious SAG-AFTRA Short Film Showcase at New York's Robin Williams Center. Most recently, his films have won Best in Show at the Push Film Festival, Best Screenplay at Video Hackers-Italy, Audience Choice Award at the Flagler Film Festival, Best International Short at the Mestre Film Fest in Venice, and Best Comedy at LaFF-VIN, an annual festival hosted by the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy. In addition to having had many of his screenplays produced, Allen has worked on several assignments, including writing an untitled animated feature for Singapore's Egg Story Creative Productions. As a journalist, he has won three Associated Press Managing Editors Awards for feature writing. His writing and photography have appeared in numerous books, magazines and newspapers.