Jason Pearson
Project: Spares
Jason Pearson is an entrepreneur and creative storyteller. Pearson began his creative career in the music industry in New York City, developing albums with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Gil Scott-Heron, and many musicians you’ve never heard of. It was then that Jason then founded the first digital magazine, Blender, and Dennis Advertising Agency which was acquired by Maxim Magazine and Quadrangle Venture Partners. In 2000, Jason formed OnlineGiving/StarWire in Silicon Valley a technology start-up for nonprofits funded by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner-Perkins. In 2004, in Southern California, Jason founded Pearpod, working with Hollywood studios to develop key-art, marketing, and digital production services. Pearpod has been involved in 71 films including The Passion, Narnia, Rocky, The Shack, Unplanned, Nefarious, and The Shroud: Face-to-Face. In 2023, Pearson started FiveHive Studios to utilize artificial intelligence in the production of films and media. Pearson is an oil painter with collectors around the globe including the Al-Thani Contemporary Art Museum in Qatar. New York Magazine named Jason one of its “60 Digital Visionaries.” Jason and his wife, Melinda, and their 5 kids including triplets live in a small California surfer town and hope to someday have a pet sea pig.
Spares
Two decades ago, Jason Pearson and his wife were confronted with a profound question: they had created spare embryos through in vitro fertilization, and now what should they do with them? “Spares” tells the personal story of four couples that chose to adopt of put their fertilized embryos up for adoption, taking viewers on a riveting journey through ethical, scientific, and legal landscapes of this new and bizarre technology.
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