Born in Los Angeles, CA to Colombian and Argentinian immigrants, Jason’s passion for filmmaking began at an early age when he won the 1999 CineVegas Youth in Film competition. In 2010, he graduated from The School of Visual Art's Directing Program in New York. His thesis, CONTRITION, won VisionFest's 2010 “Most Promising Filmmaker” Award. In 2015, Jason co-wrote the screenplay TO DUST with NYU alum Shawn Snyder. The script went on to receive both the NYU and Tribeca Sloan Student Grand Jury Prizes and was selected as one of the participants of IFP’s 2015 Emerging Storytellers. Jason would go on to co-produce TO DUST along with Emily Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola, and Ron Perlman. In 2018, the film, starring SON OF SAUL's Geza Rohrig and actor Matthew Broderick, premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival where it received the Audience Award for Narrative Feature. In 2019, Jason Begue and Shawn Snyder were nominated in the Best Screenplay category by the Independent Spirit Awards for TO DUST. Jason is currently enrolled in NYU’s Graduate Film Program.