Jared Pelletier
Jared Pelletier (born 29 November 1990) is a Canadian director, responsible for a number of short films including In the Hearts of Men and the Machinima series Omega. Early life Pelletier was born and raised in Aurora, Ontario, where he attended Cardinal Carter Catholic High School. In 2008, he graduated high school and attended Brock University studying Sport Management. Interested in film-making since the age of 6, he left the university to focus on it. In August 2010, he graduated from the Toronto Film and Media College. He has also studied business and law in entertainment by correspondence through the University of California Los Angeles. Career Pelletier's first success came in 2009 when he was 18, with a shortlist at the Cannes Film Festival for The Collision. In March 2011 his World War II epic In the Hearts of Men took Best Director, Best Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing awards at the Arizona Film and Media Expo.<ref name=itsjust>{{cite news |url=http://itsjustmovies.com/14991 |title=In the Hearts of Men'’ Takes Top Honors at AZFAME Film Festival |work=It's Just Movies |date=29 March 2011 |access-date=4 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818182757/http://itsjustmovies.com/14991 |archive-date=18 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Soon after filming In the Hearts of Men, he moved on to