Jason Ross Jallet Biography

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, and co-produced the acclaimed indie dramatic comedy The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming(2008). In 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively, Jallet produced the first four of the planned nine chapters that comprise Perspective. Also in 2015, he produced Your Name Here (2015 film), a feature-length docufiction that examines the art and craft of movie acting, and the desire for movie stardom. He is currently completing his most recent films as producer: the psychological drama The Anonymous Rudy S. (2016), Nadia Litz's upcoming dramatic thriller The People Garden (2016), and Darwin (2015 film) (2015), a science fiction family film.

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 upcoming indie comedic drama Jean of The Joneses (2016) featuring Emmy winner Sherri Shepherd, Golden Globe nominee Gloria Reuben, and Gemini nominee Demore Barnes, the country music musical Country Crush (2016), and internationally celebrated director Kim Nguyen's romantic drama Two Lovers and a Bear (2016) featuring Golden Globe nominee Tatiana Maslany and BAFTA nominee Dane DeHaan.

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

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.

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. 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.