Jack Fessenden
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Jack Fessenden, cited as one of "11 Great Indie Filmmakers 30 and Under You Need To Know" (Indiewire, 2017), completed his first feature film, Stray Bullets, during his sophomore year in high school. It received a 12-city theatrical release through Screen Media Films and was heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as a "strikingly impressive...blazingly confident debut". His second feature, Foxhole (2021), "achieves an almost abstract beauty" (Josh Siegel, MoMA) and is the winner of the Woodstock Film Festival's 'Best Ultra Indie' award. It received distribution through Samuel Goldwyn Films with a theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York and the Laemmle Music Hall in LA, with global distribution handled by Bleiberg Entertainment. Both films are available to stream. Jack recently graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied film, studio art, and history. He is the lead guitarist for the indie rock band Dinoboy. He lives in New York City.
