Biography
Upon graduating UCSB Department of Film in 1999, Jesse Felsot was hired at Outlaw Productions best known for ‘The Santa Clause’ starring Tim Allen and ‘Sex, Lies & Videotape’ directed by Steven Soderbergh and worked as an assistant to producer to company owner Robert F. Newmyer and received ‘assistant to producer’ credits on the Warner Bros award winning crime/action film, ‘Training Day’ directed by Antoine Fuqua, with Denzel Washington winning the 2001 Academy Award for ‘Best Actor,’ Columbia Pictures action/comedy ‘National Security’ starring Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Bill Duke and Eric Roberts directed by Dennis Dugan(director of Happy Gilmore, Grown Ups) and the Warner Bros. wrestling comedy ‘Ready to Rumble’ directed by Brian Robbins(director of Varsity Blues, HBO’s sitcom Arli$$) and starring David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt and Rose McGowan and many WCW wrestlers at the time. After Outlaw Prods, Felsot spent two years at A Band Apart Commercials and Music videos; a company owned at the time by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and Producer Lawrence Bender, where Jesse worked in budgeting, scheduling, hiring crew and overseeing big national TV AD campaigns and top rated music videos for MTV’s Total Request live as an on staff production coordinator side by side the Head of Production and Executive Producer of the company. Shortly thereafter, and leaving A Band Apart, Felsot was hired by writer/director David Ayer (writer of ‘Training Day’ ‘Fast & The Furious’ and director of ‘Fury’ and ‘The Beekeeper’) to run day to day at his company, ‘Crave Films’ and while working here Felsot was made co-producer on the MGM crime/action film ‘Harsh Times’ that Ayer wrote and directed starring Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria, Terry Crews and J.K. Simmons. Upon leaving Crave Films, Felsot through is own company ‘Treasure Entertainment’ produced music videos for the big hit song Lil Rob’s ‘Summer Nights’ where the video played on MTV non-stop and the single reached #36 on the Billboard 100 and #9 on the rap charts. Felsot continued to produce top level music videos for other recording artists such as Baby Bash, Janelle Monae, Amanda Perez, Snoop Dogg, Cam’ron, Nicki Minaj, Alyson Stoner, Pierce The Veil, NB Ridaz, Slum Village and many more in the music industry and for big record labels such as Atlantic Records, Bad Boy Records, Universal Records, Upstairs Records, Sony BMG Latino and many more. Currently Felsot works in his own company CM Films in acquiring films for his distribution deal with Amazon Prime, Tubi, Apple TV, Youtube movies as well as DVD distribution on Amazon, Moviezyng, Deep Discount, Walmart, Best Buy and Soundtrack distribution through his own music label on Amazon Music, Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Youtube Music. When not acquiring new films, Felsot writes/directs/produced music documentaries, most notably ‘Where’s the Soul?’ an R&B/Hip Hop music streaming on Tubi and Nightclub Star aka ‘DJ Mixset’ where both are available on Amazon Prime and his new music documentary project, ‘Drug Rap’ an inside look at today’s Hip Hop and its relation to Opioids and epidemic across the nation.