---
name: "Jaron Presant"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jaron-presant"
fi1m_id: "jaron-presant"
imdb_id: "nm0696070"
tmdb_id: 67662
roles: ["Second unit director of photography"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-05T13:31:22.456950+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jaron Presant

## Identity

Jaron Presant

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jaron-presant
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jaron-presant
- **IMDb ID:** nm0696070
- **TMDB ID:** 67662
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67662

Second unit director of photography.

## Details

- **Work:** Second unit director of photography
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (1), 2010s 61 (3), 2020s 77 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 70 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Mystery 4, Crime 3, Drama 3, Thriller 3, Action 2, Comedy 2
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $629m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696070/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67662

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Poker Face*](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jaron Presant is a cinematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and began his career working with cinematographer Tom Richmond while still in high school.

Presant has maintained a long collaboration with director Rian Johnson, starting as gaffer on *Brick* (2006) before taking on second-unit duties on films including *The Brothers Bloom* (2008), *Looper* (2012), *San Andreas* (2015) and *Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery* (2022). He served as director of photography on *Hours* (2013), *Rampage* (2018) and *Don't Make Me Go* (2022), and on television series such as *Daybreak* (2019), *Mr. Corman* (2021) and *Poker Face* (2023–2025), for which he shot multiple episodes.

*Sources: theasc.com, imdb.com, lamarbrothers.tv.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), Fi1m 77, Lighting Director — [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Poker Face* (2023), Fi1m 82, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md)
- *Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery* (2022), Fi1m 72, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *San Andreas* (2015), Fi1m 54, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/san-andreas.md)
- *Carrie* (2013), Fi1m 52, Additional Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/carrie-2013.md)
- *Looper* (2012), Fi1m 78, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/looper.md)
- *Brick* (2006), Fi1m 81, Second Unit Director of Photography, Gaffer — [page](https://film.one/film/brick.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), Lighting Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Shimmer, Inspired by Eva Young* (2024), Cinematography
- *Poker Face* (2023), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/poker-face.md)
- *Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery* (2022), Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Don't Make Me Go* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Mr. Corman* (2021), series, Director of Photography
- *Secret Society of Second-Born Royals* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Rampage* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Self/less* (2015), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *San Andreas* (2015), Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/san-andreas.md)
- *HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt* (2014), series, Director of Photography
- *Hours* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Carrie* (2013), Additional Photography — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/carrie-2013.md)
- *Looper* (2012), Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/looper.md)
- *Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Andy Kindler: I Wish I Was Bitter* (2009), Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- *Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Brick* (2006), Gaffer, Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/brick.md)
- *Mortuary* (2005), Director of Photography
- *May* (2003), Gaffer, Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Visceral Matter* (1997), Director of Photography
- *Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon*, Cinematography

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