BIO 

Jack Fessenden, cited as one of “11 Great Indie Filmmakers 30 and Under You Need To Know” (Indiewire, 2017) at age 17, grew up on the sets of his parents’ indie horror films. In his teens, he made several short films with friends and completed his first feature film, Stray Bullets, during his sophomore year in high school. It received a 12-city theatrical release through Screen Media Films and is available to stream on major platforms and was heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as a “strikingly impressive…blazingly confident debut”.

His second feature, Foxhole (2021), “achieves an almost abstract beauty” (Josh Siegel, MoMA) and is the winner of the Woodstock Film Festival’s ‘Best Ultra Indie’ award. It received distribution through Samuel Goldwyn Films with a theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York and the Laemmle Music Hall in LA, with global distribution handled by Bleiberg Entertainment.

Fessenden seeks to foreground our shared humanity in a time when political culture obsesses over our differences. He believes movies that take a boldly humanist stance on the issues of our time can heal, inspire, and unite us. Jack is pursuing his original directorial work with a third feature and hopes to helm existing properties and serve other filmmakers as cinematographer. He recently graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied film, studio art, and history.

July 2022