Jason Silva
Jason Silva is a
Venezuelan-American television personality and filmmaker currently
working as a Host and Producer on
Current TV, the
television channel cofounded by Al Gore and now the fastest growing
cable network in TV history. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Jason earned a degree both in film and philosophy from the University
of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He, along with Max Lugavere,
produced
and starred in a documentary/performance piece entitled “Textures of
Selfhood”. The name for the film was taken from the Hedonistic
Imperative, a website promoting the end to human suffering by
philosopher David
Pearce.
Max and Jason have become a prolific hosting and producing
duo on
Current, with stories ranging from illegal immigration and counterfeit
IDs, to the effect of pheromones in sexual attraction, to profiling a
brave new singer songwriter right before signing a publishing deal.
Their story on counterfeit IDs earned them a featured appearance and
interview on Anderson Cooper 360. They have also been invited to guest
host hit shows on E! and Women’s Entertainment, been featured in a
full-page LA Times article on Current, and have also cohosted a panel
on short-form film making at the 2006 South By Southwest festival.
Most recently Max and Jason were spotlighted in full page write ups on
Angeleno Magazine, Flaunt Magazine and Nylon Guys, who called them “The
stars of Current TV”. The Paley Center in NYC (formerly the museum of
Television and Radio) has most recently invited them to lead a panel on
the evolution and rise of citizen journalism.
Jason produced and edited the short film
The Immortalists, featuring
interviews with
Ray Kurzweil, Michael West,
Michael Fossel, and Dan
Baker on
the will to become immortal. The film, which Jason calls “a love letter
to science and philosophy” was inspired after reading Alan Harrington’s
The Immortalist. The short has been making the rounds
online and has
been featured of the front page of 17 different blogs on the
internet.
Read his LinkedIn profile.