Jerry White Jr.

Here’s a bio I wrote about myself in third person. Maybe someday someone else will write a thorough and awesome bio about me and I won’t have to pretend it’s not just me talking about myself…
Jerry White Jr. has been making films since he was a teenager, starting in the early nineties with home movies and public access television in Metro Detroit. Initially a self-taught DIY guerrilla filmmaker, he later attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, earning an MFA in Film & Television Production with a focus on Directing, Writing, and Editing. As a director, actor, and producer, Jerry has screened at over a hundred film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards and securing international distribution for 20 Years of Madness, a film more than two decades in the making. In 2017, he founded the Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival to promote unconventional storytelling and bring together eclectic, unorthodox, and progressive filmmakers, musicians, and artists. Jerry is drawn to niche creative subcultures, outsider artists, and passionate amateurs. Heartstorm is his feature directorial debut and is slated for release in 2026.
Okay, that dense bio paragraph focuses on me as a filmmaker and doesn’t talk about my writing or music projects at all. I’ve written screenplays as well as many short stories and essays, published in various zines and blogs. I make music—most recently under the name Really Very, with an album released in 2025. I’ve made no mention of my love of creative collaboration, though I guess that’s implied. I also care deeply about learning, expression, problem-solving, making memories with people I care about, and exploring real and fictional worlds.
I realize now there’s also no sense of humor in this bio and I don’t think this addendum addresses that either, opting instead for a kind of creaky meta irreverence. Oh well—you can’t properly do justice to an entire human being in a few hundred words! You’ll just have to take me at my word when I say I’m fairly hilarious, sardonically sincere, and contain multitudes.