Welcome
My name is Jason Fraley. I’m a 27-year-old filmmaker and journalist who just completed his M.F.A. in Film and Electronic Media at American University in Washington D.C.
My first feature-length screenplay, Cinemagic, was a Quarterfinalist in the Academy’s 2010 Nicholl Fellowships (Top 300 out of 3,000), Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival (Top 400 out of 4,000) and winner of Best Screenplay at the 2009 Visions Film Festival. I also recently finished my second feature script, The Luck of the Fall, and the treatment for my third, Serial, was a Quarterfinalist in MovieMaker Magazine‘s Ultimate Filmmaker Competition.
I have directed a number of narrative shorts, including my master’s thesis, Liberty Road, winner of the 2011 CINE Golden Eagle Award, and Man With a Bolex Movie Camera (2010), Official Selection at the 2011 D.C. Shorts Festival and winner of the 2011 TIVA Peer Award for Best Independent Short. I have also co-produced the puppet series Metro Monsters for NBC-4 in Washington, and served as 1st Assistant Director on several projects, including the NBC-4 web series Stage Fright (2011), directed by Claudia Myers, and the indie feature Surviving Me (2011), directed by Leah Yananton.
On the journalism side, I work as Morning Drive Writer for the all-news WTOP, the most popular station in the nation’s capital, the most profitable in the nation, and winner of the 2011 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence and the 2011 Marconi Award for Legendary Station. Before that, I got my B.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, where I worked for the school newspaper and radio station, while holding internships at USA Today, The Baltimore Sun and The Frederick News Post.
In my spare time, I’m combining my love for film and journalism with a cutting-edge website of film criticism called The Film Spectrum. It’s a labor of love reflecting an almost unhealthy obsession with movies, which caused The Washington Post to write in its Sunday Style Section: “Fraley, a film buff, is known for his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history, by year.” (6/12/11) In a separate piece, The Washington Post praised The Film Spectrum for its “lengthy, spirited reviews … with the ethos of a true film aficionado.” (12/8/11)
What else? I’m a die hard Washington Redskins fan, I play in flag football and softball leagues, and I’m a fraternal twin.
Thanks for checking out my site.
Jason Fraley
301-401-6917
fraley.jason@gmail.com
