Jared D. Martin
Editor · San Francisco, California, USA
Jared Martin is an Emmy-winning documentary editor and filmmaker whose work centers on shaping complex, real-world stories with clarity, restraint, and emotional precision. He has since led the cutting room on a range of high-profile series, including the Critics Choice-nominated Shiny Happy People (Amazon), Trial by Media (Netflix) produced by George Clooney, and Science Fair: The Series (National Geographic), which earned him an Emmy. Documentary and nonfiction storytelling has appealed to Jared from a young age. When he was 14, he made a film about Sudanese refugees known as the Lost Boys. The film went on to play the festival circuit and took home 4 awards including the Columbine Award for nonviolent conflict resolution and 2 audience choice awards. That early experience-telling stories without a script, resources, or a road map-cemented his interest in nonfiction storytelling and the creative responsibility that comes with it. Throughout his career, Jared has been fortunate enough to collaborate with some of the top filmmakers in the genre such as David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Chef's Table), Oscar-nominated Garrett Bradley (Time, Naomi Osaka), and Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love). His work has been seen at festivals like SXSW and Tribeca and on major platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and National Geographic. Jared is drawn to stories that resist easy answers and push the boundaries of the genre while honoring the truth of the material. He believes documentary editing is an act of authorship, a process of constructing meaning out of chaos. Working from hundreds and sometimes thousands of hours of footage, he approaches the edit as a form of discovery, where structure, pacing, and juxtaposition reveal deeper emotional and thematic truths while respecting the lived reality of the subjects on screen. Jared is an alumnus of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is a proud member of the Television Academy and the Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE).
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Biography from IMDb.
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Editor
- 10 on MovieCove
What are Jared D. Martin's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jared D. Martin's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- discovery+
Subscription and free streaming for Jared D. Martin's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
10 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Boy Band Confidential(2026)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Hollywood Demons(2025)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all shows
Beyond the Battlefield(2023)
Shiny Happy People(2023)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
More Than Robots(2022)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Soulmate(s)(2021)
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films
Trial by Media(2020)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
The City of Gold(2018)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 4 titles from 2018 to 2026.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Jared D. Martin's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 30th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 33rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 9 titles are Mixed.
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed3
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the pacing 23/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Jared D. Martin work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jared D. Martin's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Brian McGinn shares the most, 3.
Cinematographers and editors
- David BolenShared titles: Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari (2025), Trial by Media (2020)See all 2 shared titles with David Bolen
- Tim JohnsonShared titles: Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari (2025), Trial by Media (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Tim Johnson
- Matt ColbournShared titles: Beyond the Battlefield (2023), Shiny Happy People (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Matt Colbourn
- Andrew McAllisterShared titles: More Than Robots (2022), Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Andrew McAllister
Producers
- Brian McGinnShared titles: More Than Robots (2022), Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022), Trial by Media (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Brian McGinn
- David GelbShared titles: More Than Robots (2022), Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022), Trial by Media (2020)See all 3 shared titles with David Gelb
- Jamie McBrietyShared titles: More Than Robots (2022), Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022), Trial by Media (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Jamie McBriety
- Jason StermanShared titles: More Than Robots (2022), Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022), Trial by Media (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Jason Sterman
