Jason Buff

Jason Buff is probably best known as an award-winning graphic designer and founder of the Indie Film Academy. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina, Jason moved to San Francisco and later Los Angeles working as a freelance cameraman and doing anything he could to work on film sets. In 1999 he changed careers to graphic design and spent the best part of the next 10 years as a successful graphic designer. Work included projects for Marvel, Holiday Inn, and At&t to name a few. In 2002, Jason left the U.S. permanently and moved to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico where he lives with his wife and son. In 2012, realizing that technology was empowering people all over the world to start making their own films, Jason decided to jump back into the world of filmmaking and started preproduction on what would have been his first feature, "Subterania". Unfortunately, complications would derail the project and the film never happened. As a response to the failure, Jason formed the Indie Film Academy as a way to both learn how to make films, but to share the information with up and coming filmmakers around the world. As a challenge proposed on his podcast to "stop talking about filmmaking and make a film", Jason has recently completed his first short film "Nibble".