Jay Holben

Director at Adakin Productions
Director and Producer

Los Angeles, California

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About Jay

Jay Holben is a multi award-winning independent director and producer in Los Angeles, California. His most recent work is the feature romantic drama Before the Dawn and the American Society of Cinematographers Motion Imaging Technology Council’s Standard Evaluation Material 2.0 short film The Mission. As a producer and director, Holben has helmed independent feature films, television series, documentaries, short films and commercials.

A former cinematographer, he is an Associate member of the ASC, the contributing technical editor for American Cinematographer Magazine, the chair/co-chair of several of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council Committees. He is also the author of the three books on cinematography: the highly lauded independent lighting manual: A Shot in the Dark: A Creative DIY Guide to Digital Video Lighting on (Almost) No Budget, the compilation of a decade of cinematographic journalism in Behind the Lens: Dispatches from the Cinematographic Trenches and most recently the exhaustive and internationally acclaimed The Cine Lens Manual: The Definitive Filmmaker’s Guide to the Design, Implementation and History of Cinema Optics.

He has also written for The Hollywood Reporter, Videography, TV Technology, Government Video, Geek and was the technical editor for Digital Video magazine.

In addition, Holben is an international lecturer on the art and science of filmmaking and was a resident instructor with the Global Cinematography Institute, a school started by the late Academy Award winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC. He is now a frequent instructor for the ASC Master Class.