Jared Peraglia is a Student Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist from New York. His most recent film, Here to Stay, won a Student Academy Award, was shortlisted for a Yugo BAFTA, and screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals across the United States, including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Woodstock Film Festival. Graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2022, Jared was honored with the Excellence in Documentary Award and granted the Alan Landsburg Documentary Film Fund. Jared’s films have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, and Variety. He was interviewed by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on the craft of producing a short documentary. Throughout college, he found his love for unscripted media by interning and working as a Production Assistant at leading brands and production companies such as CNN Original Series and Films, Part2 Pictures, Ark Media, and McGee Media. He now works full time at CNN in Program Development. Jared resides in Brooklyn and is originally from the Hudson Valley.