Jay Zaretsky

Jay Zaretsky is a native of New York City who splits his time between Venice Beach and Joshua Tree. Jay first began writing his first feature film, Asher, when he was fifteen riding the A train to class at the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts where he studied fine art and drama. In New York, Jay pursued journalism, interning at The New Yorker, writing music reviews for several notable publications, and programming the Tribeca Talks series at the Tribeca Film Festival. Upon moving to California Jay contributed creatively to the first two season of FX's Justified. His most recent works include the biopic of Teddy Pendergrass, the western, Marauder, and A Different Beyond directed by Matthew Libatique and produced by Darren Aronofsky. The Momentum distributed Asher opens in theaters and VOD on December 7th 2018 and stars Ron Perlman, Famke Jansen, Richard Dreyfus, Peter Facinelli, Jaqueline Bisset and is directed by Michael Caton Jones. When he's not writing screenplays Jay can be found writing screenplays.