TISH FEST 2025: MEET FILMMAKER JAIME JASSO, DIRECTOR OF THE RED STONE

Jaime Jasso, born in Guadalajara, is a VFX artist with over 25 years of experience in film and video games. He gained recognition for his work in "Avatar," part of the Oscar-winning  VFX team. He has also contributed to successful projects like "The Avengers: Infinity War," "Star Wars," "Iron Man," and more. He co-directed "El Camino," a short film that won the Ariel Award for Best Visual Effects in 2022.

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TISH FEST 2025: MEET FILMMAKER JAIME JASSO, DIRECTOR OF THE RED STONE

What made you fall in love with film?

I love sci-fi and horror, the emotional rollercoaster that I feel when watching a movie is a complete sensorial experience, I wanted to explore my own imagination and see more and more films that eventually will fill up my brain with ideas to come up with my own stories. 

What was the first film you saw in a theatre?

At an early age, my father took me to the movies to see The Empire Strikes back, the visual spectacle is what left me in awe! I wanted to know more, not only I was stocked with the story but the visual, the sound the experience, from that moment and I was just 8 years old, I wanted to do that, I wanted to create a visual journey with narrative and art.

What do you love about the collaborative process of independent filmmaking and film festivals?

I love the opportunity we have to show our films to more people around the world, as an independent filmmaker, I love the freedom I have to decide what I want for my films,  of course with an expensive cost of self-finance the project, and of course the trial and error of guerilla filmmaking, all that pays off in lots of learning and experience.

As a filmmaker, what lengths have you gone to to achieve getting a shot, delivering a performance, or producing a scene? 

Everything plays in what the camera is seeing, performance yes, but what is performance without cinematography or even without the emphasis of a particular music queue? As a Director you need to find the formula to project you intention, so I would say I focus on the scene as a unit.

What's next for you as a filmmaker? 

I’m writing more, working in a few stories that could potentially be my Opera Prima, still in the Horror-Sci-fi genre, in the meantime, updating my visual effects knowledge and thinking of the new possibilities as filmmakers using AI tools.

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