Jesse Freeston
Jesse Freeston makes videos and other vectors for spreading stories out of his home base in Montreal.
As a freelance shooter-editor he has worked for a variety of platforms including: Vice News, La Planète S’invite au Parlement, Politico, 60 Second Docs (Winner of the 2019 Webby Award for Best Documentary Video Channel) and as a member of the media team of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.
As a filmmaker, Jesse is an active member of the Makila co-operative where he co-organizes regular story development incubators, the annual Cuban Hat Pitch at the RIDM, and contributes as a shooter or editor on the projects of fellow filmmakers. Ever since the 2009 military coup d’état Jesse has worked extensively in Honduras where he directed two independent documentary films: Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital and Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley.
Before falling in love with cinema Jesse worked as a video-journalist for teleSUR and The Real News Network. When not behind a lens or in front of a screen, Jesse is a devout basketball player, mediocre improv performer, and co-host of the podcast Where Is Now.
