Jason Ross Jallet

Jason Ross Jallet (born in 1981 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film producer, and entrepreneur.

Producing

From 2005 to 2009, Jallet co-managed all affairs artistic and business at Ourson Films, which he first joined in 2004 as a producer's representative for the international award winning film A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2004). Prior to his producing career, Jallet worked variously as a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and/or picture editor of many diverse corporate, performance, and vanity videos, pay-per-view television programs, and straight-to-video entertainment.

In 2008, Jallet co-established the Sudbury, Ontario-based production and distribution company Nortario Films,^[1][2] and co-produced the acclaimed indie dramatic comedy The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming.^[3] In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively, Jallet produced the first five of the planned nine chapters that comprise Perspective.^{[4][4][5][6][7]} In 2016, he produced the psychological drama The Anonymous Rudy S.,^[8][9] Nadia Litz's dramatic thriller The People Garden (2016), Your Name Here (2015 film), a feature-length docufiction that examines the art and craft of movie acting, and the desire for movie stardom,^[10] and Darwin (2015 film) (2015), a science fiction family film.^[11][12]

In addition to producing his own films, Jallet works variously as supervising producer, production manager, executive producer, production supervisor, co-producer, associate producer, etc. on a wide variety of other productions, including the Canadian indie comedic drama Jean of the Joneses featuring Emmy winner Sherri Shepherd, Golden Globe nominee Gloria Reuben, and Gemini nominee Demore Barnes,^[13] the country music musical Country Crush,^[14] and internationally celebrated director Kim Nguyen's romantic drama Two Lovers and a Bear, which premiered in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival, featuring Golden Globe nominee Tatiana Maslany and BAFTA nominee Dane DeHaan.^[15][16]

He joined the not-for-profit company Music, Film and Motion from 2010 to 2011 as Director of Programming.^[17][18]

Since 2011, Jallet has been a member of the faculty of the Motion Picture Arts curriculum within the Fine Arts program at Laurentian University, and is a weekly guest commentator on the CBC Radio program Boreal Express, where he expresses his views on the film & television industry as it relates to Northern Ontario.^[19][20]

In 2011, Jallet and filmmaker B. P. Paquette co-founded the Greater Sudbury-based not-for-profit company Northern Ontario Motion Picture Culture and Industry Development Corporation (NOMPCIDC, pronounced Nomp-see-dik), whose mandate is to develop and promote the film & television industry in Northern Ontario.^[21] In 2012, NOMPCIDC launched Xanadu Studios, an equipment rental depot and post-production facility that services professional film and TV projects in Northern Ontario. Sound stages, for professional and training purposes, are currently in development.^[22][23][24]

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