Jason Hanasik
San Francisco, CA, United States
Jason Hanasik is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and journalist. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, presented on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Ace Theater in LA and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. His scholarship has been published in the academic journal Critical Military Studies and his photography monograph, “I slowly watched him disappear” is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Hanasik has taught students at California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley and he has delivered public lectures at a variety of institutions including the SFMOMA, the Society for Photographic Education Conference, TokyoDocs, the University of Vermont, and Creative Mornings. He has completed residencies and fellowships at the Smithsonian’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, SFFILM, the Global Short Docs Forum and the Bay Area Video Coalition.
As a marketer, Hanasik originated the position of Storyteller in Gap’s Global Marketing Department in 2011. During his tenure at Gap, Hanasik made videos and photographs for Gap and Gap Inc, built a sustainable platform to deliver rich media experiences to Gap’s North American fleet of stores, and imagined new ways Gap could integrate their seasonal messaging with emerging technologies into the store experience. Since leaving Gap, Hanasik has created videos and still image assets for small and large brands and served as a storytelling/marketing consultant.
Hanasik has a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Purchase.
2017 - Multiple, 2015 - Deans Fellow
- Advertising
- Audio capture
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Interview
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
