Jason Pierre is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer born to first-generation Jamaican immigrants and raised in the South Bronx. He received a BFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. His short film Existential Donut (2018) has screened at 15 film festivals. He has worked for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, where he wrote and directed an original comedy short for the channel Pero Like. He has also written four episodes of BuzzFeed’s animated The Good Advice Cupcake Show for Facebook Watch and The Era, BuzzFeed’s Cocoa Butter channel’s new show on Facebook Watch. He is currently a story editor on Season 4 of the CW show In The Dark.