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NEWS: Official Selection Beverly Hills Film Festival for CIALT!
Motion, Short Film, Director, News Aaron Jean Motion, Short Film, Director, News Aaron Jean

NEWS: Official Selection Beverly Hills Film Festival for CIALT!

We’re so proud of our short film CIALT: Caught In A Love Trap, we are an official selection for the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2025! We’re looking forward to seeing our film premiered in the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood!

This was our first submission and we are so grateful to be selected so early after all the time and hard work we have invested over the last year!

We couldn’t have achieved any of this without our incredible team who gave their time and expertise to every part of our film!

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Key Art For Short Film: CIALT

Key Art For Short Film: CIALT

I’m looking forward to the premiere of our short film, CIALT: Caught In A Love Trap, which I directed and shot with an amazing team. As we put the final touches in post-production with the color and sound team, we passed a really special milestone by finalizing the amazing Key Art created by our 4-time Emmy-winning Art Director, Carla Daeninckx featuring some of my favorite stills that I shot for the film.

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NEW Music Video Launch: “Toxicidad” by The FO’s

NEW Music Video Launch: “Toxicidad” by The FO’s

I'm incredibly excited to share the launch of the newest music video by The FO’s! There is no better way to start the new year than with a busy couple of weeks and the launch of a new music video: "Toxicidad." This was a dream assignment -- They basically gave me the keys to the studio and let us play with lights!

The best challenge was the harsh reality of the lyrics with an impossibly catchy song that perfectly captures the merry-go-round of toxic relationships and cycles of abuse while trying to find your own voice.

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Portrait Experiments In Silhouette
Fashion, Session Notes, Portraits Aaron Jean Fashion, Session Notes, Portraits Aaron Jean

Portrait Experiments In Silhouette

That obsession was how powerful a silhouette can be in a photo. I was enamored with the idea that it could be aesthetically, beautiful, but also very personal. It struck me that you could identify these individuals quickly with nothing but their silhouette if you knew them, and it really sparked the idea of storytelling within portraiture, and playing with absence, and of course, shadow, because if you know me, you know, I love a good dark shadow.

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