Who Are We & What Do We Do?

We're Jesse and Brian, also known as Brian and Jesse. We believe in good, strong storytelling with absolute efficiency in mind so that every word counts and the result is not only good storytelling, but also strong storytelling, also.

Once upon a time we needed a joke to pump up a laugh-luster scene and found we had the opportunity to make any joke we wanted. Any subject, any method. The freedom was debilitating. We brainstormed for hours until late-night delirium

Jesse Mallin (J-Dawg)

Jesse was born in South Jersey, not North Jersey – that's the bad Jersey, the one with Newark – and grew up as an only child with all the time in the world to play in the woods, doodle, and form strong opinions about what half of Jersey is better than the other. He thought he might be a fancy scientist and contribute to the greater good, but after an English class assigned him to write and film a video presentation on Candide, he realized that making clever fart jokes on film was his true passion.

After graduation, he packed his bags and traveled as quickly as he could through the Mad Max wasteland that is North Jersey and settled in New York City, where he attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He learned movies real good through the Cinema Studies program because he wanted to know what a good movie was before he wrote one. When it came time to write that good movie (among other things) he teamed up with Brian, the guy on the right. Together they’ve completed a portfolio that’s so adequate, it’ll make your head remain comfortably still.

Brian Warzak (B$)

Brian grew up in Omaha, Nebraska where every day after school all the kids would gather in the cornfields to write bios about themselves in the third person. Looking back, it was inarguably the best training a writer could have. I mean, just look at this bio!  He later attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was nominated for a couple of production awards, excellence in something or other, but he didn’t win so he doesn’t remember the particulars.  Whatever they were they were very impressive.
 
He currently freelances as a cinematographer, camera operator, and grip on various and sundry efforts local to the New York City area, including political ad campaigns, music videos, industrials, and charity fundraisers and gala events. He wrote and directed a public service announcement for the National Epilepsy Foundation, shot a short documentary on the 2012 presidential election that aired on MSNBC, and recently shot a couple segments for Bloomberg TV’s “Correct Me If I’m Wrong.” If you’d like to see any of his work, send nudes.