Jared Lee Masters (born August 7, 1986 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American independent motion picture producer, screenwriter, director, and commercial actor. He is best known for his 1960’s Mod style B-movies, such as 8 Reels of Sewage (2012) and Climb It, Tarzan! (2011) which is one of the few films in history to feature an all-female cast. He is also the director of the 2013 horror film Slink. H
is father’s stint in the Army kept the family of 6 moving to various cities across the globe (including Kansas City, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Germany). Masters was initially home-schooled by his mother, but then later attended a mix of public and private schools in Richmond, Virginia. His interest in filmmaking began at age 14 when he directed and edited skateboarding videos, then selling the VHS tapes to fellow students for five dollars. At 15, he began teaching himself piano, and later produced several pop and acid jazz albums under pseudonym J. Riddles, ultimately providing original scores for some of his films. In 2007 he joined the Screen Actors Guild and moved to New York, where he landed a few minor roles in feature films and television, including Disney’s Confessions of a Shopaholic and ABC’s Ugly Betty. He directed several documentaries and short subjects, including Meet the Freaks at Dreamland Coney Island and The Umbrella. In 2010 Masters moved to Venice Beach and made his first full-length feature, Climb It, Tarzan! Some of Masters’ trademarks: retro themes, female empowerment, fetishism, burlesque as an art form, exploitation, voyeurism, society’s underbelly, carnival and circus themes, and homages to B-Movies of the 1960s. He lives in Hollywood, California.
