Jack Piatt
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Jack Piatt is the Founder of Highway West Entertainment as well as Managing Partner at Jammcard Films. He is a writer, filmmaker, songwriter and producer who spent many years in the Art Department before focusing primarily on writing and producing. He directed and produced the feature documentary, Far Behind: The Candlebox Story in partnership with Warner Music Entertainment, slated for a spring 2024 release. He was a producer on the follow up to the critically acclaimed "Wrecking Crew" documentary with Denny Tedesco in partnership with Submarine Entertainment and Magnolia which will have a theatrical release December 2023 as well as a producer on the Hulu original film Trap Jazz, released in August 2023. He produced the feature documentary about the storied band "America" which will release in 2024. Piatt helped build Jammcard, Inc. coined by Forbes as a "musicians LinkedIn." He grew up outside Dayton, Ohio and became a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division before attending undergraduate and graduate studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for Journalism and Media Management. He spent time as a journalist, photographer and editor before embarking on a career in advertising at the Denver Post, but left to pursue his passion for writing and filmmaking. In addition to his professional endeavors, Piatt has long demonstrated his passion for global issues and social justice, working with Participant Media as a field producer on the Save My Oceans Tour and various other projects and campaigns such as the Palau Project, Imagining Geographies, Meals on Wheels, and Manifest Equality. His most recent project is developing music programs for people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. He is on the advisory board for Songs for Good, as well as on the Board of Directors for Give a Beat and WisdoMania Foundation. Piatt released his new poetry book, Poems From My Phone in early 2020 and released his audio book "The Fencepost Knows Too Much" in 2021. He remains committed to raising awareness for important causes and creating impactful stories that empowers viewers and shifts global consciousness.