Jesse is a writer-director of fiction and a self-shooter of documentaries. He is a Fiction Directing graduate of the NFTS, a History graduate of Oxford University and a John Brabourne Awardee.

Jesse’s NFTS graduation film Runt won Best Film at both Brest and Bologna, the Special Jury Prize at Taipei and Special Mentions at Ludwigsburg and Aix-en Provence. Runt also competed in the Cannes Cinéfondation competition and London BFI festivals among many others.

More recently, Jesse wrote and directed half hour BFI funded drama If You Can Hear Me – about a boy coming to terms with his discovery of a death by suicide, currently available on Amazon Prime and distributed by 7 Palms Entertainment and Gonella Productions, who are also distributing five of Jesse’s other short films.

Jesse also recently directed Change Step – about an armed forces veteran struggling to adjust to civilian life, commissioned by Forces Connect South West. Other fiction credits include Take Five – five shorts about adolescence and mental health commissioned by the Charley Waller Memorial Trust; Isaac – about a man finding forgiveness for the day he failed to save his younger brother from drowning; and Shoplifting, Fight and MDMA – commissioned by Somerset Youth Offending Team to deter young people from offending.