Jesse Dylan
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Jesse Dylan, born January 6, 1966 in New York City, is an American film, television, and music video director.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Music videos
The son of Bob Dylan, Dylan began his career directing music videos for such artists as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Public Image Ltd. and Lenny Kravitz. His most recent work includes music videos for Nelly Furtado and Eels ("Trouble with Dreams" and "Fresh Blood"). He also directed the video "Ashes to Ashes" by The Wallflowers, a band which features his brother Jakob and the video for his father's single "Most of the Time"
[edit] Films
Dylan's resume led him to work in feature films, helming How High, American Wedding and Kicking & Screaming. He also produced Crips and Bloods: Made in America, a documentary exploring the world of gang violence in South Los Angeles, for director Stacy Peralta. This film was included in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Along with his business partner Craig Rodgers, Dylan created the commercial production company Form, servicing domestic and worldwide accounts including Nike, Toyota, Nintendo, Motorola, American Express, Pizza Hut, NFL, and MTV.
[edit] Activism
While directing a project for the Black Eyed Peas on an Interactive Snickers campaign, Dylan befriended will.i.am, who recently sought his services again to collaborate on a project for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The result is the Emmy Award-winning video, "Yes We Can", which began virally online and has been seen by tens of millions of viewers since its debut in February 2008.
His current projects include a PSA for the 2009 PODER Reconciliation Forum, and work for the TED Community (Technology, Entertainment, Design). As a member of TED, he is creating socially-conscious works such as his PSA for Pangea Day 2008, the 2006 TED Prize Wish, and the Charter for Compassion, a PSA for the 2008 TED Prize winner, Karen Armstrong.
Dylan’s non-profit work led to the creation of a new division at his production company – FreeForm – which is devoted to telling the stories of innovative projects, organizations, and foundations worldwide. Through this new division, he has created many media projects for Bono’s (RED) Campaign.
Dylan's work includes his medical website Lybba, whose mission is based on the premise that all the world’s medical knowledge should be available free of charge in simple easy-to-understand language. In addition, he spearheaded the development of hopeactchange.com, a activism-based online community. He has also worked with Science Commons on communications, directing a short film introducing the project for web distribution.
He also serves on the board of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C. based public interest group working to defend citizens' rights in our emerging digital culture.
[edit] Television
Dylan recently produced and directed a new series entitled CONversations with Ricky Jay. In this series, sleight of hand artist/actor/author Ricky Jay explains the fine art of cons, frauds, and hoaxes with celebrities, experts, luminaries and fellow raconteurs.
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