About
I’m C Jason OHara, a writer, director, producer, and editor working through ghost seventy four, LLC.
My work is rooted in narrative film — stories about identity, control, vulnerability, fear, memory, and portraying the LGBTQ+ community in a positive light. As an LGBTQ+ filmmaker, I’m drawn to stories about our greater community and working to provide more and much needed visibility.
I came to filmmaking after years of leading people, solving problems, and navigating the kind of high-pressure environments that do not always look creative from the outside. That background still shapes how I work. I care about vision, but I also care about structure. I care about the emotional truth of a scene, but I also care about whether the production can actually make the day. For me, the creative and practical sides of filmmaking are not separate. They have to support each other.
Through ghost seventy four, I’ve made multiple award-winning short films and completed my first feature, HAPTIC, a micro-budget psychological drama about a man struggling to keep his life from unraveling as therapy brings him closer to a truth he may not be ready to face. Making HAPTIC was a full education in what it takes to carry a film from idea to production to post — writing, directing, producing, editing, visual effects, sound, color, festival preparation, and all the difficult decisions that happen in between.
That experience clarified where I want to go next.
I’m building a body of narrative work while also helping other filmmakers move their own projects forward. That support can take different forms: producing, consulting, story development, post-production strategy, creative problem solving, or simply helping a filmmaker see the clearest path from where they are to a finished film.
I’m especially interested in independent films that have something personal at stake. Projects that may be ambitious, messy, emotionally specific, or difficult to categorize. Films that need both creative care and practical momentum.
This site is part portfolio, part working journal, and part invitation. The films are the center of it, but the process matters too. The Director’s Journal is where I share lessons, decisions, mistakes, and useful notes from the work of making and finishing films.
I believe independent filmmaking is sustained by clarity, collaboration, and persistence. You need a strong point of view, but you also need people who can help protect that point of view through the realities of production and post. That is the kind of work I want to keep doing — on my own films and in support of others.
ghost seventy four exists for that purpose: to create thoughtful, emotionally resonant narrative work and to help bring more of it into the world.