Glendale-born director Jared Hess is known for his debut film "Napoleon Dynamite." How he stretched his creative legs with "A ...

Utah filmmaker Jared Hess, who directed "Napoleon Dynamite," takes on his first big-budget special effects movie with "A ...

But how did this little deadpan romp, directed by Jared Hess and co-written with his wife, Jerusha, become such a sensation? At the time, when sequels to “Shrek” and “Spider-Man” were ...

Glendale-born writer and director Jared Hess came out swinging with his first feature film, 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite," which became a cult classic. Over the years, Hess has gone on to write and ...