Cassie Jaye

• Name — Cassie Jaye • Birth Name — Cassandra Nelson • Born — 1 May 1986 • Birthplace — Fort Sill, Oklahoma, U.S. • Occupation — Film director, producer • Years Active — 2004–present • Notable Works — The Red Pill • Website — jayebirdproductions.com

Jaye was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Nena Jaye. When she was aged 6, her parents divorced. When she was 14, Jaye moved to Las Vegas, where she attended Palo Verde High School. At age 18, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was an actress for five years before moving to Marin County, California in 2008. Jaye disliked the stereotypical roles she was cast in, which she described as "cute girl-next-door who always died in horror films." Along with several incidents of sexual harassment, this led her to embrace feminism.

After leaving the acting field, Jaye stayed in films, but as a documentary producer, director, and editor. She formed Jaye Bird Productions, a film production company, in 2008. Her mother is her production partner.

Jaye directed and produced the 2010 American documentary film Daddy I Do which examines sex education and sexual abstinence programs in the United States. Daddy I Do includes interviews with the founder of the Silver Ring Thing Denny Pattyn, feminist writer Amanda Marcotte, and Douglas Kirby. The film discusses personal stories from women facing teenage pregnancy, single motherhood, abortion and sexual assault. Bust magazine praised "Jaye for exposing the truth about abstinence-only programs, the stories of teenagers who buy into it, and its consequences". In December 2018, Jaye published Daddy I Do on her channel on YouTube.

Jaye directed and produced her second feature documentary film The Right to Love: An American Family in 2012. The film chronicles a family known as "Gay Family Values" on YouTube in the aftermath of 2008 California Proposition 8. The film premiered in February 2012 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco with guest speaker Zach Wahls. The film was screened at the Frameline Film Festival. In December 2018, Jaye published The Right to Love on her channel on YouTube.

Jaye directed and produced the 2016 American documentary film The Red Pill about the men's rights movement. Jaye spent a year interviewing men's rights figures, such as Paul Elam, founder of A Voice for Men; Harry Crouch, president of the National Coalition for Men; Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power; and Erin Pizzey, who started the first domestic violence shelter for men in the modern world. She interviewed critics of the movement, such as Ms. magazine executive editor Katherine Spillar, and sociologist Michael Kimmel. Jaye initially relied on her own money to fund the film, as well as that from her mother and her boyfriend, as she found difficulty finding backers from traditional sources after it became known that the film would take a "balanced approach" view of the men's rights movement. In what she called a "last resort", she started a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The Kickstarter project promised to be a "fair and balanced" look at the men's rights movement. She received support from Breitbart News columnist Milo Yiannopoulos. At the end of the film, Jaye states that she no longer identifies as a feminist, saying that she now believes that "feminism is not the road to gender equality". Although she no longer calls herself a feminist, she has stated that she is "still an advocate of women's rights and always will be" but is now "adding men to the discussion." Jaye gave a TEDx speech about her experience making The Red Pill. It focused particularly on how the process initially affirmed her feminist sense of otherism and outrage against the men's rights movement, but then later broke it down. It was an "uncomfortable and humbling experience", and one that turned her "from feminism to gender equality activism". In 2019, Jaye said that the video diaries she recorded during filming allowed her to remember what her views on feminism were before she started working on the film, and why she thought that way. Looking back on the diaries, she could see that her previous views weren't necessarily malicious, but just uninformed.

• Daddy I Do (2010) • The Right to Love: An American Family (2012) • The Red Pill (2016)

Evan DaviesCassie Jaye and Evan Davies married in June 2018. Davies worked as director of photography on The Red Pill. In September 2018, Jaye discovered that she was pregnant, but then miscarried about a month later. She recorded the events of her pregnancy and miscarriage in footage code-named Robin, the name she gave to the miscarried baby. She has given consideration to produce a documentary project based on that footage, which would be named, Waiting to Miscarry.

Cassie Jaye was recorded at birth as Cassandra Patricia Nelson. She also worked under the name Cassie Jaye. Her recorded language was English.

Cassie Jaye is recorded as film director, actress and film producer.