Hello, I am Jason Sussberg. I am a filmmaker at Structure Films, among other things…
Other things I am: marathoner, hot saucier, skeptic, existentialist, hater of mayo, decentralized citizen, syndicalist, family person (which you won’t find online).
My films include The Immortalists, Bill Nye: Science Guy, and We Are As Gods. The works I am most proud of aren’t films at all — a podcast and a public television series.
Depending on who I am talking to, I grew up in Grass Valley, California or the Carson Valley, Nevada, or my family is from Michigan, or New York. I graduated from UC Santa Cruz ('04) with a degree in Film & Digital Media, and earned MFA from Stanford (‘10) in Documentary Film. Once upon a time, I was a producer/editor for the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors from 2005-2008, working in my preferred medium: Jumbotron.
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Jason Sussberg
is a Bay-Area based documentary filmmaker, focusing on cinema for science. Like Phil Ochs, he is a card carrying union member (Writers Guild of America), making art about about our modern times. Unlike Ochs, he can’t carry a tune but instead carries a microphone. He has produced and directed several theatrical documentaries that have broadcast on PBS and streamed on Netflix, Apple TV, & Amazon.
Film in development…
In a bold effort to save the Internet’s “Great Library” from ruin, Internet trailblazer Brewster Kahle—founder of the Internet Archive—battles the powerful publishing and recording industries, threatening to erase our collective access to knowledge and dismantle our online freedoms. This documentary tells the story of one of the early Internet’s free and open-source technologists and his urgent fight to protect digital freedom and preserve the public’s access to knowledge.