Jaime Prater is a filmmaker, podcaster and storyteller whose work has often explored memory, identity and the ways the past continues to live beneath the surface of the present. In 2014, Jaime directed No Place To Call Home, a documentary examining abuse and life inside Jesus People USA, the intentional religious community where he spent his childhood. Ten years later he returned with Love Song, revisiting many of the people and stories that remained with him long after the cameras stopped rolling.

Jaime is also the founder and host of Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast and co-founder of Shoulder of Orion: The Blade Runner Podcast, where for years he has explored storytelling, cinema and the worlds that shape us. Podcasting eventually became more than a medium. It became a language.

For years Jaime believed his own story might eventually become a book. But the older he became, the more he found himself returning to places and memories that never fully left him. Chicago streets. Apartment windows. Music. Longing. The number 317 appearing in unexpected places and following him through life.

The Boy I Buried is the most personal work Jaime has created. Through immersive narration, sound and memory, he retraces the landscape of his childhood, not simply to revisit the past, but to better understand the boy who lived through it and the man who emerged from it.

Jaime currently lives in Southern California and is preparing for a permanent move to England, continuing to create films, podcasts and stories centered around memory, belonging and the complicated places we continue calling home.