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Los Angeles, CA - (Director, Producer, Writer) received the 2010 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for “Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series” for the pilot of ABC's comedy hit “Modern Family” and was named one of Daily Variety’s 2011 “10 Directors to Watch.” The Baltimore native made his feature directorial debut in 2011 with “Arthur,” starring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren.
Winer served as the producing director on “Modern Family’s” first season and during his collaboration with the show, has received an Emmy Award (2010), Peabody Award (Excellence in Television: 2009, 2010, 2011), PGA Award (2011, 2012), and an AFI Award. He has now directed 19 episodes of the hit comedy since the show began and was a 2012 Emmy nominee for his episode, “Virgin Territory.”
Jason and cast members from Modern Family
A graduate of Northwestern University, double majoring in Performance Studies and Photography, Winer honed his improv skills in the acclaimed comedy group, “The Mee-Ow Show,” a launch pad to past alumni such as Julia Louis Dreyfus and Seth Meyers. Winer is also an alumnus of the Improv Olympic Theatre in Chicago. Winer began his career as an actor, improviser, and photographer before making the transition to directing.
Jason has directed work for brands such as Oscar Mayer, Walmart, Staples, Danon and SunRun.
Client: Campbell's Chunky // Agency: Y&R // Directed by: Fatal Farm // Production Company: Gifted Youth
Directing collective Fatal Farm just launched their latest spot for Campbell’s Chunky Soup featuring Seattle’s Richard Sherman and of course…his mom. The spot, care of Y&R which is part of a longer format web-only version was featured in Creativity, AdAge and all our favorites, AgencySpy. Click here for the Creativity write up.
Client: Pepsi Max // Directed by: Peter Atencio // Production Company: Gifted Youth
Funny or Die commercial production unit Gifted Youth emerges victorious in the extremely competitive Humor category at this year’s AICP in New York. Director Pete Atencio, best known for his work with sketch comedy duo Key & Peele was tapped to follow up Pepsi Max’s incredibly successful “Joyride” campaign. When a Jalopnik blogger calls BS on Pepsi’s original execution, Jeff Gordon suits up as a cab driver in this elaborate prank to prove once and for all that his driving is no laughing matter.
In keeping with Obsidian’s M.O. of only representing/sharing things that are [a] new and/or [b] awesome, we are pleased to announce the addition of LA based production company Gifted Youth to our roster. Gifted Youth is the commercial production arm of the wildly successful website Funny or Die [.com]. The directing roster consists mostly of comedy directors including the most recent addition, former Caviar director Jake Szymanski. Like many production companies Gifted Youth boasts an in-house design & VFX department dubbed Visual Creatures. You can learn more at giftedyouth.com or just take my word for it.
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