Jared Hogan was born in Oklahoma and raised in South Carolina. The son of a pastor, his upbringing in the evangelical South shaped his view of the world and how he captures it. His work is driven by a deep fascination with belief. How it saves us, how it fails us and how it defines the spaces we inhabit, told through a lens that’s both deeply personal and visually precise.
Whether directing music videos, narrative films or branded work, Jared brings a sense of stillness and emotional weight to everything he touches. He’s collaborated with artists like Mumford & Sons, Travis Scott, Gracie Abrams and Mitski. His narrative films have screened at Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying festivals around the world and have been featured on Directors Notes, Short of the Week and Vimeo.
Now based in Los Angeles, he continues to build a body of work that feels intimate, unsettling and entirely his own.
Directorial work has been featured on The Hollywood Reporter, The Film Stage, The Film Verdict, Short of the Week, Directors Notes, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Complex, Pigeons and Planes, Highsnobiety, Paste, Time, People Magazine, Spin, MTV, VH1, Vimeo, 1.4, FrameSet and Booooooom among others.
Jared is currently developing feature film projects under his banner Okemah and co-runs his horror-focused production company Chapel with his producing partner Brian Tetsuro Ivie. His debut feature film “Jackrabbit” was shot in late 2025 and premiered in September of 2026 at the prestigious Oldenburg International Film Festival (dubbed ”The European Sundance” per Variety) where it was nominated for Best Film and took home the Seymour Cassel Award for Outstanding Performance, awarded to Frank Mosley for his tragic turn as T.A. Diamond. Jared is already in development on his sophomore feature film, eyeing production in fall of 2027.
Film & TV
Epicenter, Jarrod Murray
Commercial
Rapture Studio, Chris Heinrich
Music Video (US)
Lark Creative, Cheyenne Shannon
Music Video (UK)
FreeAgent UK, Alexa Haywood
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