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Jesse Hicks grew up in Nevada City, a small town in the foothills of Northern California. He attended Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley and graduated from Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California. He maintains close friendships with peers from both high schools. Then it was off to New York, where he graduated from Columbia College. Now Jesse lives in Brooklyn. He has directed, produced, shot, and edited a wide range of films and videos. These include numerous short films for clients like the Independent Film Channel, narratives, documentaries, and live music shoots.
He likes swimming in rivers and oceans and other bodies of water, especially when they don't have high levels of petroleum and petroleum dispersants in them.
Hello Jesse,
Great work! The more concise infomation that is out for the public, the better.
Hawk
Thank you for your documentary on the Gulf leak. I would like the film to cover how it happened from the beginning. I mean from the beginning of the overly cozy relationship between the overseers and the oil industry. How did hundreds of oil rigs gets built with absolutely no viable and operational plan in place to remedy disasters?
Please drive home the all important fact that there is STILL no quick way to stop tens of thousands of gallons daily to gush out in the event of other leaks. We have the technology to tap this resource, but incomplete and ineffective technology to prevent disastrous results from our tapping it. So these platforms never should be built until we have tried, tested and proven we can control them.
Thank you for considering this,
Aletha Stuart
Grass Valley, CA