Jared Callahan

Director/Producer

Reverend Jared Callahan is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary director/producer. He founded and runs People People Media Foundation, a non-profit arts community and production company birthed on a 95-acre farm in the San Francisco East Bay that specializes in unique stories that amplify voices and increase empathy. His work has been released through The New York Times, PBS, GQ Magazine, The Atlantic, ALTER, NoBudge, Short of the Week & Vimeo Staff Picks. His projects have premiered at the best film festivals in the world, including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and over 200 more. Jared served as an Atlanta Film Society’s Filmmakers in Residence, a 2024 Likewise Fellow, and has directed three feature documentaries, including Clean Slate. He is currently directing a docuseries focusing on the national conflict over wolves.

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Clean Slate

Available on streaming platforms now!
Striving to stay sober, best friends Josh and Cassidy write their traumatic life events into a short film screenplay. The project is jeopardized when Cassidy relapses and has to leave their Southern, faith-based recovery home. The aspiring filmmakers struggle to restore faith in their friendship, their families, and themselves, all while making their short film about the turbulent road of recovery.

Sometimes I Shake

Available now via Vimeo-on-demand!
Music professor Dan Nelson successfully navigates his life and profession around an ever-increasing shake caused by his Parkinson’s disease. Suddenly, he is devastated by the additional, and terminal, diagnosis of ALS. We journey through Dan’s final days as he decides if he will marry the woman he loves, when to end his career in music, and how to invest the remaining months of his life.
In an inspirational tale full of vigor, humor, and raw honesty, this archival documentary follows Dan’s wild pilgrimage toward death, and along the way, discovering how to fully live.

Janey Makes a Play

Follow 90-year-old Janey as she writes and directs her latest original, socially relevant community theatre production for the small town in which she lives.

Saltwater Baptism

Released via The New York Times
Santiago Gonzalez IV, a first generation Mexican-American, navigates the tensions between his sexuality, nationality, and religion as he prepares for his college graduation. READ MORE

The Driver is Red

Released via The Atlantic
This true crime film tells the captivating true story of Zvi Aharoni and the Israeli secret service team that brought down one of the most powerful Nazis on the run. In Argentina, sixteen years after the end of the Holocaust, the team closes in on the murderer in their attempt to bring him to justice.

American Moderate

Released on PBS
As a millennial first time voter from the South, Liz struggles to find herself, and a candidate that represents her, during the 2016 presidential primary.

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