Jason served four years in the Marine Corps before he graduated from the University of
California Santa Cruz with a degree in Film & Digital Media. He has been producing feature
films, commercials, and music videos for ten years. Invited to join the Directors Guild of
America union as a unit production manager in 2003, he then built a production services
corporation in Los Angeles called Blue Cactus Pictures. Blue Cactus was the producing
company for fifteen feature films in four years. In 2007 Jason returned home to San
Francisco and founded Black Ink Entertainment. Black Ink is developing original content and
provides consulting services in business planning and financing strategies for independent
films. Hired as a business consultant for Common Sky in February 2009, Jason joined as
Executive Producer in June.