Jamal Caesar

Jamal Caesar (born May 18, 1981) is an American filmmaker and the only African-American filmmaker (one of four) selected to be in the highly selective first HBO directing program class, a program with a 2014 inception.
He is best known for writing and directing the the award winning films Reform (for which he was awarded a Hollywood Foreign Press Association grant), and the soon-to-be-released 2014 film Progress (which he directed as one of the inaugural members of HBO's directing program).
Early life
Jamal was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a first generation Caribbean mother born in 1950s Grenada,.
He attended Prep for Prep a prestigious non-profit academic program that ultimately sent him to Yale University, where he double majored in Film & American Studies. In 2012 he graduated from NYU Film School.
Career
Professional
After graduating from Yale University, Jamal worked briefly as an admissions officer for his alma mater.
Short films
Jamal wrote and directed the short film Reform (2012) starring Jake Hoffman as his graduate thesis film at NYU, which screened at the Urbanworld Film Festival and received a Mexico International Film Festival Golden Palm Award in 2012. The short film also was featured as one of the 7 selected films in 2012 at the prestigious Gen Art Film Festival that same year.
His latest film Progress was produced in collaboration with HBO and is currently in post-production.

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