Bar Mitzvah Boy

Directed by Jared Press

Length: 20:40

Producer: Jared Press

Editor: 
Jared Press
Cinematographer: 
Jonathan Zhao
Sound Designers: Meg Yamada

Synopsis: A hustling, teenage bar mitzvah videographer (Jared Belushi) reluctantly films a memorial - an experience which upends his life and challenges his abilities as a storyteller.

Undergraduate
jmp991@nyu.edu

Award-winning filmmaker Jared Press - who recently graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts - is the Writers' PA on "Modern Family" creator Steven Levitan's upcoming Hulu series "Reboot." He spent one year interning at Darren Aronosfky's production company and remains their longest-held intern. His feature screenplay "Man of the Hour" was ranked in the top 20% of all entries to the 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Jared also worked as a production assistant on "Westworld" (HBO) and spent four summers interning at Mad Chance Productions at Warner Brothers.