Jason Cuadrado
| Jason Cuadrado | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jason Joseph Cuadrado New York City, New York |
| Occupation | film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer |
| Years active | 2002 - Present |
| Website | http://www.jasoncuadrado.com |
Jason Cuadrado is an award-winning American director, producer, and screenwriter. He's known for directing the first j-horror feature film in the United States, Tales from the Dead. After directing television news in New York City, he transitioned to film by starting as a personal assistant to American actor, John Leguizamo. He wrote and directed the thriller, Devil May Call.
Cuadrado was born in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Juan Jose Cuadrado, a high school teacher and Clementina Tang-Cuadrado, a university professor. He's the second born of three sons and is of Puerto Rican, Colombian, and Chinese descent. He was named after the Greek demagogue Jason after nearly being named after Orson Welles.
He is a graduate of Townsend Harris High School and attended Queens College and New York University where he studied video and film production. After directing new segments for Bloomberg Television and heading the award-winning new media department for Deloitte and Touche's New York branch, Cuadrado relocated to Los Angeles where he focused on feature film directing, writing, and editing. It was in California where he was inspired by trends in Japanese horror to write and shoot the j-horror anthology film, Tales from the Dead. The film features a cast of Japanese actors speaking their native tongue. Many of whom worked together on Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood. Cuadrado did not know Japanese at the time so the original English script was translated into Japanese for the actors. When interviewed, Cuadrado would say, "I had to direct the actors based on their performances instead of the script. If I could tell where they were in the dialogue without understanding what they were saying then that was a good take". The film was embraced by j-horror fans who were intrigued by the Western take on Japanese horror tropes. Tales from the Dead is scheduled to be remade in Thailand by Angel and Bear Productions who have optioned the rights to the film.
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