Jason ‘Jaice’ Mannings (they/them) is a British Columbian artist & filmmaker.
Rejecting a common dichotomy, they are tuned into nature & culture.
Jaice works as a Director, Cinematographer, and Editor, and has daily photographic & artistic practices. While experienced on commercial sets, they thrive as a generalist, with small crews, making intimate films in relative solitude.
Often DP’ing the films they Direct, their first award-winning feature sports film, Stripped (2006), won ‘Best New Film Producer’ at the then-prestigious (in the outdoor sports industry) ‘Bike Magazine Film Awards’. In 2017, they won an Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Camera Work’ on an episode of the docu-tv series Image Quest (2016). In 2021 they were nominated for a 2nd cinematography Emmy for their work on the 1st season of the docu-tv series Return To Earth (2020). In 2026, after a Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Champions Of The Golden Valley (2026)—a film they shared cinematography duties on, alongside director Ben Sturgulewski—won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary.
Today, Jaice’s focus is on working in documentary, while shifting towards narrative cinema, under the fledgling MyDearCinema production company. They remain involved in commercial, outdoors, and fine art genres.
Forthcoming are a series of personal works, including their debut narrative feature film, Parker Scooter.
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