Jared Cohn: Jared Cohn. Director: Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash. Jared Cohn is a film and television director, writer and producer based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in New York, Jared received a bachelor in fine arts from the from New York Institute of Technology... then went west. Jared enjoys music, painting, photography, cinematography and watching mixed martial arts and boxing.