Jarod Bainbridge

Jarod Bainbridge is an 18-year-old director, actor, author, and college film school student. At the age of 6, on a day trip to a friend of his mom's, Jarod was given paper and a pencil to keep himself busy. During the drive, his 2-year-old sister was being fussy in her car seat, so in order to entertain her, Jarod drew pictures on the paper. At the completion of his last picture he announced "Mom, Dad, I wrote a story". This soon became Jarod's first picture book. In the years that followed Jarod wrote his second picture book: The Haunted House, and 2 chapter books: Summer Vacation, and Jake Peterson And His Not So Secret Admirer. While he was a little embarrassed about the subject and the title of his 2nd chapter book, his 3rd-grade teacher loved it and allowed him to read it to his classmates. Soon after, the topic of making his book into a movie came up. He had always wanted to make a movie, but his dad would say it was a lot of work. This time his dad said that if he was willing to do the work, write the screenplay, cast the characters, and direct, then he could make the movie. So over the summer of 2011, Jarod spent almost every day working on the movie. Jarod and his dad would sit at the computer and work on the script chapter by chapter and scene by scene. Since it was his movie, he had to call and schedule his friends and their parents for the scenes as well as get permission to film at the different locations. After 3 long months, he completed the final edits and his 64-minute movie was complete. Not wanting the project to end, Jarod submitted proposals for making his movie into a fundraiser and on November 5th, 2011 his movie was shown at the local UltraStar theater as a school fundraiser for the school's digital library. Over 200 people attended and he made over $800 for his school. Since then Jarod has started his more formal acting career and attended monthly acting classes and participated in several acting workshops. He is represented in LA by Crackerjack Management and DDO Artists Agency and in San Diego by Elegance Talent and has auditioned and been booked in several commercials as well as many short films and a few small parts in a couple TV/streaming shows. In 2020 Jarod started his first year of film school as he continues on his creative path. Awards: * Final Derivation was awarded the Best Use of Prop for 2019 San Diego 48 Hour Film Project * The Heist of the Century was awarded 2018 Best Student High School and Under as well as an Honorable mention for best costuming * Cricket was awarded 2016 Best Student Film K through Middle School at Oceanside International Film Festival (OIFF) * Cricket was awarded 2017 Best Young K-6 Short Film at the Irvine International Film Festival (IIFF) * Enigma Episode 1 was awarded 2014 Audience Choice Best Student film K-Middle School * Save The Date was in the top 20 films for the 2014 Four Points Film Project * Youth Filmmaker Award for the 2014 Four Points Film Project * Save The Date was awarded the Jury award for best film K - 8 at Oceanside International Film Festival * Save The Date was awarded Best Kids - Made Film San Diego International Kids Film Festival Can't wait to see what he accomplishes in the next 18 years