Biography
Jason Hand is a director and former story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He co-directed Moana 2 (2024) with David G. Derrick Jr. and Dana Ledoux Miller.
Hand attended the California Institute of the Arts. His earlier credits include head of story on Encanto (2021), story artist on Zootopia (2016) and the original Moana (2016), storyboard supervisor on Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), and layout artist on films such as The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Brother Bear 2 (2006). He has worked at the studio for over twenty years.
He is also directing the forthcoming film Hexed (2026).
