Jason R.A. Foster

Jason R.A. Foster is an award-winning filmmaker, originally from Kingston, Jamaica, who now resides in New Jersey but has spent most of his life in the American South. His wanderlust has contributed to his ability to tell stories and connect with people from all walks of life. In 2010, shortly after relocating to New Orleans, Jason met David Bear, and together, they founded FosterBear Films in the fall of 2011. Since then, FosterBear has produced over thirty short documentaries, short narrative films, and music videos. Their work has been featured in reputable media outlets such as the New York Times, Shadow and Act, Indiewire, TruthOut, and Okayplayer. Jason is a 2015 New Orleans Film Society Emerging Voices Fellow and has received numerous New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership grants for his work documenting Louisiana artists. In addition, he has taught filmmaking classes at the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) and spent a year as a Film Instructor at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). During the spring of 2020, Jason released his first feature documentary, the award-winning Many Fires This Time: We the 100 Million (Best Cinematography for a Louisiana Feature and Special Jury Recognition for a Louisiana Feature), and during the same year, was a fellow in the UnionDocs Research and Development Summer Lab for his personal documentary feature, In Search Of... The shortened version In Search Of…Pregame premiered in 2022 and garnered a Special Jury Recognition Award (Best Louisiana Short Documentary) from the New Orleans Film Festival. He is happily married and a father of two.