---
name: "Jason Headley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jason-headley"
fi1m_id: "jason-headley"
imdb_id: "nm3268751"
tmdb_id: 1748205
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:32:29.647551+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."
---

# Jason Headley

## Identity

Jason Headley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jason-headley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jason-headley
- **IMDb ID:** nm3268751
- **TMDB ID:** 1748205
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3268751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1748205

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3268751/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1748205

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Onward*](https://film.one/film/onward.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Jason Headley is a writer and director. He co-wrote the screenplay for the Pixar film *Onward* (2020) with Dan Scanlon and Keith Bunin, and received a story credit on the same film. He also co-wrote the screenplay and story for *Lightyear* (2022).

Headley wrote and directed the feature *A Bad Idea Gone Wrong* (2017), which won a Special Jury Prize at SXSW. His short films include the 2013 viral video *It's Not About the Nail*, which has been screened at Banksy's Dismaland, featured on NBC's Today Show and SundanceTV, and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.

A graduate of Davis & Elkins College, where he studied environmental science and political science, Headley has also created commissioned short films for brands including Heineken, Sony and Chrysler.

*Sources: imdb.com, pixar.fandom.com, jasonheadley.com, dewv.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Onward* (2020), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/onward.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Lightyear* (2022), Screenplay, Story
- *Onward* (2020), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/onward.md)
- *Don't Keep Your Love a Secret* (2018), Director
- *A Bad Idea Gone Wrong* (2017), Director, Writer
- *It's Not About the Nail* (2013), Director

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