Jason Dice Staggie is an author, filmmaker, educator and revolutionary.

He grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where his upbringing forced him to cultivate a love for something. In his case: transgressive and literary novels, and ballsy, thought-provoking films. In 2005 Jason graduated with a double major in Psychology and Film Studies from the University of Cape Town.

Over the next few years he travelled, taught, and fundraised for charity across five countries, from Ireland and South Korea to the Czech Republic, China, and Tajikistan — building the restless, cross-cultural perspective that defines his work.

In 2010 he attended film school in Prague, Czechia, graduating with a diploma in directing and screenwriting.

In 2013 his SALA-nominated debut novel, Risk, was published. That same year he was a finalist in the Kevin Spacey Jameson scriptwriting competition.

In 2015 Jason moved to China to write his Beijing-set novel Fugue State. Upon returning to South Africa in 2021, he released his debut feature documentary Hard Livings, which premiered at the Durban International Film Festival. Hard Livings is a son's attempt to make sense of the choices that shaped his family, his city, and himself.

In 2022 he was selected as artist-in-residence as the 55th Bridgeguard in Štúrovo/Párkány, Slovakia, where he completed Fugue State and exhibited a Fluxus exhibition based on the novel.

In 2023, Jason was awarded Film Independent's Global Media Makers Fellowship for his TV series adaptation of Risk, travelling to Los Angeles for the residency. That same year he was selected for the Realness/Netflix Episodic Lab — one of Africa's most competitive screen development programmes.

He is currently a lecturer at Nanjing Agricultural University, China, and co-founder of Voice of the Voiceless, a Cape Town-based organisation working with communities in the townships. He is a recipient of various awards from the NAC and the NFVF.

His forthcoming novels Epic and Fugue State, feature screenplays The Rehab and Royals, and the TV series concept for Risk are all presently in development.

Jason spends a lot of his time writing and thinking about things to write. When he's not doing this, he's teaching, filmmaking, and plotting change — in all its beautiful dimensions.