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. For more information, read the following paragraph.

Once upon etc. we were punching up a scene and found we had the opportunity for a context-free joke about anything we wanted. The freedom was exciting, but ultimately debilitating. We brainstormed for hours and in the delirium of twilight we hit upon a dead hippo sight gag that we found hilarious. This is obviously a terrible joke, but one worth celebrating because we realized why its conception was so grueling: it didn't evolve organically from the story or its characters. From that point forward we sought to avoid any and all "hippo jokes" and make sure everything aided the story or bolstered a character. The banner image is a testament to our commitment to writing purposefully, using dead hippo sight gags if and only if the main character is a hippo. 

Jesse Mallin

Jesse grew up in South Jersey (the good Jersey) and lives in New York City, where he once 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 upper right. Together they’ve completed a portfolio that’s so adequate, it’ll make your head remain comfortably still. When he's not writing scripts, he's writing copy, and when he's not writing copy he's writing bios for his website.

Brian Warzak

Brian grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was nominated for a couple of very impressive production awards that he didn’t win. He currently freelances as a cinematographer, camera operator, and grip. 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.