Jason Ross Jallet

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

Producing

Since 2005, Jallet co-manages all affairs artistic and business at Ourson Films, which he joined the year previous 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](2008). In 2012, and 2013, respectively, Jallet produced the first and second of the nine chapters that comprise Perspective. ^{[4] [5] [4] [6] [7]} He is currently completing his most recent films as producer: the psychological drama The Anonymous Rudy S. ^[8][9] (2013), the dark comedy (Non)Fiction (2013), the thriller One Small Mistake (2013), which is based on the popular and award-winning 1980 novel La Bavure (English-language translation: The Cleverness) by celebrated French crime novelist Jean-Francois Coatmeur, recipient of France’s prestigious Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, ^[10][11][12] and Esc (2014), a science fiction drama by Genie nominated director Alain Desrochers, renown for the box-office hit Nitro. ^[13]

He joined the not-for-profit company Music, Film and Motion from 2010 to 2011 as Director of Programming.^[14][15]

Jallet is 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.^[16][17]

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.^[18] 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.^[19][20][21]

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