Jason Alarcon Pro

Jason Alarcón is a bilingual, queer, Latinx film editor based out of San Francisco. He discovered his passion as a teenager while producing a short documentary about his Peruvian father. Since graduating from Columbia University, he has assisted many television series and feature films, including Oscar-nominated “How to Survive a Plague” about AIDS activism, and Emmy Award-winning “Independent Lens” on PBS.

Jason was an editor on several shorts, like “Tiny Little Planets,” a queer coming of age narrative, and an additional editor on features, like “CHASING” about the Lat35 team that rows across the Atlantic Ocean. While at Goodby, Silverstein & Co, he worked on multiple advertising campaigns and supported Courageous Conversations’ “Not A Gun” campaign against systemic violence. He was a lead assistant editor on “37 Words,” a 4-part ESPN+ series on Title IX’s journey into protecting women and gender-fluid children, within sports and beyond. Jason was a 2020 Sundance Art of Editing fellow and is currently a 2023 Karen Schmeer fellow.

He currently serves on the steering committee of the Alliance of Documentary Editors and is co-president of the Video Consortium Bay Area, where he champions local, diverse filmmakers. In the edit room and beyond, Jason continues to advocate for queer, women, trans, non-binary, disabled, racial minorities, and other underrepresented voices in media.

Languages: Jason is highly proficient in Spanish and a beginner in Portuguese.