Jesse Zook Mann is an Emmy Award winning producer and cinematographer from New York City. Recently, Jesse is producing the documentary series My 1st Time for NBC, which has earned top ratings for LXTV. In the past year My 1st Time specials have included coverage of the Summer Olympics, The Tribeca Film Festival, The NYC Marathon, and the Presidential Inauguration. Recently Jesse has been segment producing on NBC’s hit shows Open House New York, and 1st Look, as well as I Do. Jesse Co-Produced Splitting Hairs, the story of the World Beard and Mustache Championships, which was an official selection at the 2009 Silverdocs festival.
Jesse was born in Manhattan to hippie parents: a professional modern dancer mother and father in the used car business. He was raised in five neighborhoods in Queens and three towns on Long Island. Jesse attended the Park School at Ithaca College, where he organized activist groups addressing social justice issues. Jesse’s commitment to activism and media production often converge and have resulted in work for Democracy Now TV, The Samish Indian Nation, Youth In Action Now, The Social Justice Fund, Gay Lesbian And Straight Education Network, The Women And Cuba Collaboration, and Partners In Entertainment Against Cruelty Against our Elders.
Jesse has worked on projects for MTV Networks, MSNBC TV, Chanel, Nintendo, JC Penny, Broadway.com, Tony award winner Michael Cerveris, various broadway publicists, as well work airing on PBS.
Evan Kleinman is a 2-time Emmy nominated producer. For the past three years, he has produced for the Saturday primetime lifestyle series on NBC, LXTV 1st Look, and NBC’s hit real estate series, Open House NYC, both of which air on national television, the web, the Taxi Entertainment Network, Los Angeles gas station TVs, NJ PATH trains, Jet Blue, and Continental Airlines. In addition, Evan produced Made in Coney Island, a documentary about Coney Island’s past, present, and uncertain future, which was an official selection of The Coney Island Film Festival in 2008. In 2005, Evan spent a year teaching English in Japan, and produced various short documentaries about life as a foreigner. In the past, Evan worked on Race to Execution, an eye-opening documentary by Emmy-award winner Rachel Lyon about the death penalty in America, which aired on the Independent Lens series on PBS in 2006. Evan was also the editor for Girls: Moving Beyond Myth, a film about the challenges facing young women today, which is educationally distributed by Girls, Inc. As a student at Ithaca College, Evan produced the documentary entitled Livin’ the Music, Livin’ the Dance that follows a break dancing group as they prepare for a national championship and was awarded the James B. Pendleton Grant in 2004.
Saul Sudin is the writer and director of Jurotrip: “A Jewish, Historical, and Artistic perspective on a trip through the Northwestern Mediterranean” and The Stetson Pin. His films have been featured in various film festivals and have been shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Rose Cinema and the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. He received his BFA in Film from the Pratt Institute with a minor in Film History and was the recipient of the Outstanding Merit Award in Media Arts & Film. He has directed, edited and done camerawork for a wide range of projects spanning commercial, short film, documentary, online media, interview, music video, award ceremonies, and television.
