Jed Shepherd

Fame for: Writing

Biography

Jed’s film work includes the multi-award winning Sundance Favourite ‘Dawn of the Deaf’ and ‘Host’ which Dreadcentral calls 'The scariest movie of the past decade' and Forbes Magazine calls 'The genre phenomenon of 2020'. The movie currently holds 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is the highest-rated horror film of the year. He is currently writing 3 upcoming movies for Blumhouse, and has a film with Sam Raimi, plus a prison film with StudioCanal. ‘Absence’ starring Paul McGann was the first short Jed wrote which was selected for several film festivals such as London Film Festival, Fantasia and Fright Fest. His upcoming short ‘Salt’, originally commissioned for FOX, is preparing for its festival circuit.