San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Jason Hutt

Jason Hutt studied economics at Harvard and made several documentary video shorts, including a film about threatened Fenway Park street vendors entitled Sausage Here?. After graduating with honors he worked in Los Angeles as an assistant to Academy Award-nominated director/producer Mike Tollin on sports-related feature films such as Summer Catch, Hardball and Ready to Rumble.

In 2001 Mr. Hutt received a Regional Artists Project Grant from the Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear to make the documentary Breezewood, Pennsylvania, an intimate portrait of the lives and lifestyles that intersect at one of the smallest, yet busiest, interstate crossroads in America. Breezewood premiered in August 2002 as the opening night film at the Georgetown Independent Film Festival in Washington, DC, and was awarded Best Cinema Verite. The film screened at American and international festivals and theaters before it was broadcast by PBS affiliates in 2004.

Mr. Hutt currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. His newest documentary is Orthodox Stance, a documentary about Dmitriy Salita, a Russian immigrant, professional boxer and religious Jew. The film portrays Dmitriy's maturation in these disparate communities and the seemingly incompatible cultures and characters working together to support his rare and remarkable devotion to both Orthodox Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title.

Jason will be in attendance in San Francisco and Berkeley screenings.