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Jason Minter
Occupation(s)	Film Director, Film Producer, activist, owner of Indian Road Café
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Nicole Minter

Jason Minter is a filmmaker, activist and also owns the Upper Manhattan’s Indian Road Café; a restaurant that drew press attention for public significance as a diner in Upper Manhattan and for its connection with Jason Minter.

Career

Prior to life as a film producer on the Emmy Award-winning show, The Sopranos, he worked as the show’s assistant location manager as well as assistant to the show’s creator David Chase. Minter also appeared in D-Girl, an episode of The Sopranos, with James Ganfolfini and Edie Falco.

His story and career has been covered in articles by The New York Post, New York Times, USA Today, Daily Mail, among others.

Personal life and Indian Road Cafe

The Indian Road Café was opened in 2008 in remembrance of Jason Minter’s mother, Bonnie, a decor found all around this Café. who was murdered in 1977 while he was 7. This story was also the subject of 2007 episode of This American Life on National Public Radio.

The convicted murders are in prison from 25 years to life. Jason Minter is an active critic of the system that subjects the victims' families to the bi-annual ordeal of reviewing the detail of violence of the crimes against them each time the criminals are up for parole. In winter of 2014, as the killers faced the parole board, Minter circulated an online petition that received thousands of signatures. The Parole Board denied the killers their freedom. The criminals are expected to be up for parole again in 2016.

Career

Personal life and Indian Road Cafe

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