Jacques Thelemaque

After attending both USC and UCLA, Jacques secured a 3-picture writing deal with Imagine Entertainment.

In 1993, Jacques co-founded Filmmakers Alliance. As President, he built the grassroots collective into an important independent filmmaking community and resource organization with films screening at every major festival in the world. He's overseen the production of hundreds of films and developed a wide range of innovative and dynamic filmmaking support programs.

In 2004, Jacques and partner Liam Finn formed FA Productions, of which they are Co-Presidents. Jacques has produced several feature films including "Shock Television", ""The Dogwalker", "Within", "Midnight Movie" and "The Revenant" and is a co-producer on Brooklyn Reptyle's "Audie and the Wolf". He also produced a national ad spot for Coke Zero.

In 2005, he was named Chief Community Officer of the festival submission/filmmaker support site, Withoutabox.com. In 2017, he held that same post at Conscious Good Creator's Network.

His writer-director filmography includes the feature film "The Dogwalker" (Los Angeles Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Best First Feature - Cinequest Film Festival), as well as the shorts "My Last Day On Earth", "Transaction" (Sundance Film Festival, winner of the Grand Prix du Jury Award in the Labo Competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival), "Infidelity In Equal Parts" (Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival), "Egg" (Best Comedy Short - Cinequest Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Short - Methodfest) and "Love Without Socks".

Jacques has recently completed three new feature film scripts, "Rust", "Hurricane Jane" and "Connection". He's also written over 50 short scripts for 3rd Page, a short format writing/filmmaking collective. He's also completed the pilot script for the limited series "Monday" as well as another pilot script for the dark comedy series "Discipline".

Jacques has hosted many seminars and workshops and served as a guest lecturer or invited speaker for many film schools, film organizations and film festivals. Jacques has also been a board member, programmer and juror at numerous film festivals. He was on the programming team for the Los Angeles Film Festival from 2011 until its end in 2018.