Harrison Jaffee - (DGA)

Job Designation: First Assistant Director | Second Assistant Director

Home Base: Cape Town

OVERVIEW

Harrison Jaffee is a First and Second Assistant Director with over 12 years of on-set experience across feature films, television, and commercial production. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design's Film & Television program, he has worked on major productions including Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, and The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and produces under his own banner, Catharsis. Known for a strategic, thoughtful approach – whether filming period pieces across Montana's landscapes or war scenes in Colombia's tropical forests – he successfully guided a crew through the writer and actor strikes under SAG-AFTRA authorization to complete a coming-of-age feature starring Debbie Harry, Jemima Kirke, and Marc Gellar, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. His documentary Immortal Flowers, shot in Ukraine, won Top Prize at the 2026 Thessaloniki Industry Awards.    REQUEST CV

FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Documentary

Short Film

SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Commercial (Branded Content)

Feature Film

Television

SPECIALIST SKILLS

Pre-Production Planning;  Stunt Oversight;  SAG-AFTRA Strike Protocols;  Period Piece Production;  War & Action Scene Coordination;  Crew Leadership & Communication

DIRECTORS WORKED WITH

Alonso Ruizpalacios

Annette Haywood-Carter

Brian Logvinsky

David Hollander

Eric Close

James Wan

Kirill Sokolov

Magnus Martens

Miranda Kahn

Paul Dano

Ryan McFoul

Saskia Rifkin

AWARDS & SPECIAL MENTIONS

• Top Prize, Thessaloniki Industry Awards (2026) – for the feature documentary Immortal Flowers, which he is currently producing.
• Tribeca Film Festival Premiere (2024) – for the short Catharsis, which he produced.

REFEREES

Jonathan Wu – 1st Assistant Director