Jason Crossman

Jason produced over 35 short films for Lifeway with Seventh Story Productions and a feature film titled, The Experience, based on the best-selling book, Experiencing God, by Henry Blackaby. He won his first recognition in Kodak's Cinematography Magazine along with Emmy Award winning DP Erik Anschicks for their film, Stolen. Sony Music, Lyric Street Records, and Polaris were several of the companies he directed videos for. Jason also worked with Revolution Pictures to create Clay Walker's number-one music video, Fall, for Curb Records and shot and directed Ruben Studdard's EPK for Sony covering his song, Together. Along with Studdard's EPK came promo pieces for Lady Antebellum's Album, We Own the Night, Miranda Lambert's Four the Record, Jake Owen's, Endless Summer EP, Exile's remake of Kiss You All Over, with Trace Adkins, Love and Theft's, Amen, and Ashton Shepard's, Where Country Grows. He went on to work with Travis TV to create shows for CMT, GAC, Fox, and E! including, Jake Owens, On the Lake, Exile's, Hit Exchange, with Trace Adkins, and an hour long special for Ashton Shepard. He also worked with director David McClister to create the documentary, Ryan Adam's Heartbreaker Tour. After co-creating TV shows with Travis TV, he was hired to direct the pilot for the PBS show Southern Fried Fitness. "I redesigned the show, wrote an new script, and directed the Southern Fried Fitness Pilot which was picked up by TNN then by the Paula Dean Network where it is running today." In 2013 He was being considered for a position at CMT as the Executive Producer, but took a job instead as the content director for The Dave Ramsey Show where he worked with his team to create an entire network from the ground up including developing a three hour daily live show as well as hundreds of commercials, promos, and stories. He was awarded an Emmy Award for his work directing the show. He recently formed Wanza Banza Production company with Tori Keys and was tapped to direct, Play it Forward, a show slated to appear on the TV later this year. Partnering with Kyes and Co, Wanza Banza has a production slate of over 50 films which will appear online, in theaters and on television. In Spring of 2016 Jason joined the New York Film Academy as a directing and post-production instructor for their Masters and undergrad programs. He has always believed in giving back and has taught classes in Peru, Chile, and has been recently invited to partner with professors at Bejing University to lecture on and discuss the move of Film and TV to online platforms that include VR, Social Media, and OTT Networks.