Sherman Oaks · West Hollywood · Los Angeles
Jason Montgomery
Screen technology & virtual production specialist — from casting floors to camera domes. A career in seven scenes.
“The Godfather of Selftape” — The New York Times“My first job was at a video store. When a VCR ate a tape, I’d take the cassette apart, cut out the crumpled section, and splice it back together — reel-to-reel editing at fifteen years old.”
SC. 01 · INT. VIDEO STORE — NIGHT · Every format since has just been a new kind of tape.
Casting the big screen
A decade inside major-studio casting departments. The one-sheets:
127 Hours
Six Oscar nominations
CASTING ASSOCIATE — J. MONTGOMERYX-Men: First Class
Fassbender · McAvoy · Lawrence
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYStoker
Kidman · Wasikowska · Goode
CASTING ASSOCIATE — J. MONTGOMERYTrance
McAvoy · Dawson · Cassel
CASTING ASSOCIATE — J. MONTGOMERYDate Night
Carell · Fey · Wahlberg
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYWhy Him?
Cranston · Franco
CASTING CONSULTANT — J. MONTGOMERYA Good Day to Die Hard
Bruce Willis
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYThis Means War
Witherspoon · Pine · Hardy
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYThe Watch
Stiller · Vaughn · Hill
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYThe Sitter
Jonah Hill
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYWhat’s Your Number?
Faris · Evans
CASTING DEPT — J. MONTGOMERYMarmaduke
Owen Wilson
CASTING ASSOCIATE — J. MONTGOMERYTHE FULL SLATE — 12 STUDIO FEATURES · Every one-sheet links to IMDb
You’re in the room
Eighteen years ago there was no such thing as a self-tape studio — so he built the first one. It has been copied ever since. The New York Times called him the Godfather of the self-tape industry.
Beyond the backlot
Producer & Director
Directed and produced Special Forces training films and large-scale disaster-response simulation media for U.S. defense programs — production where the footage trains the people who respond first.
Special Technical Consultant
Consulted on VR training-system development for military logistics — translating film-set capture technique into simulation pipelines years before “virtual production” was an industry term.
Creative Consultant & Producer
Produced influencer and social campaigns for Paramount, Warner Bros. and Sony theatrical releases — content generating hundreds of millions of views across platforms.
Editor & Game Capture Artist
Cut promo and launch content for Call of Duty: World at War, Soul Calibur IV and Banjo-Kazooie — precision game capture and trailer editorial for AAA publishers.
Director of Operations — U.S.
Ran daily U.S. operations for the casting platform serving Disney, Fox, Paramount and Universal — the connective tissue between studios, casting offices and tens of thousands of actors.
Guest Lecturer — Emerging Digital Tech
Two semesters teaching the industry’s next toolset — virtual production, volumetric capture and AI workflows — to the filmmakers who’ll inherit them.
Education & Training
- MFA — Filmmaking · Post-ProductionNew York Film Academy · Class of 2008
- B.A. — Political Theory & Performance ArtsPre-Law · University at Albany, SUNY · 1999–2003
- Virtual Reality DevelopmentUPLOAD LA & Udacity · Unity & immersive experiences · 2017–2018
- Unreal Engine CertificationEpic Games · Real-time 3D content · 2021–2022
Notable Achievements
- Eagle ScoutBoy Scouts of America — highest rank; leadership, service, character
- Guest Lecturer — USC“Emerging Digital Technologies in the Entertainment Industry” · two semesters
- Industry Expert PanelistRegular speaker on entertainment technology & emerging workflows
Tape becomes point cloud
A 150-camera photogrammetry dome producing true 1:1 digital doubles — the whole actor. These are real scans. Spin them. Then put one in your room.
lilCrayN — now streaming
Directed · Produced · Built by Jason Montgomery
Let’s make the next format
Pioneer, seeking crew — a team pushing the bleeding edge of entertainment technology, where two decades of building meet whatever comes next.
jaymont33@yahoo.comWest Hollywood, CA · © 2026 Jason Montgomery · THAT’S A WRAP