Jesse Moss is the founder of Mile End Films, a New York based film and television production company.

Most recently, Moss produced and directed “Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood,” a documentary about the growing conservative movement in Hollywood. The film is currently airing on AMC (American Movie Classics).

Moss produced and directed Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story, an independent feature documentary about demolition derby champion Ed “Speedo” Jager. The film received the Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Jury Prize at the Newport International Film Festival, and the Audience Award for Best Long Island Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The film premiered in August 2004 on POV, the acclaimed PBS documentary series.

Moss is currently working with Warner Bros. Pictures and Producer Ed Saxon (Silence of Lambs, Adaptation) on a fiction film version of Speedo.

Following the debut of Speedo, Filmmaker Magazine named Moss one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Prior to Speedo, Moss produced and directed Con Man, a one hour documentary about a notorious Ivy League imposter, for HBO/Cinemax. The film premiered on the Cinemax Reel Life series in March 2002.

In 1999 Moss produced Juvies, a feature documentary about the experiences of three boys in Maryland’s toughest juvenile detention facility. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and aired on A&E.

Moss was the associate producer of On the Ropes, a feature documentary about three young Brooklyn boxers competing in the Golden Gloves Tournament. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, received the Special Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on TLC.

Moss worked with Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple for two years. He worked on-location with Kopple in Sarajevo on Defending our Daughters, a Lifetime documentary about human rights abuses in Bosnia, and in Cannes, on a cinema verite documentary about the celebrated Cannes Film Festival.

In association with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Education Development Center Inc. a Boston based non-profit organization, Moss recently produced and directed Bystander Stories, a short fiction film about youth violence prevention, and Safe in the City, a short fiction film about HIV prevention. In 2000, he directed Voices of Youth, a short film about adolescent youth in foster care for San Francisco’s Youth Law Center and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Moss previously worked as a policy aide and speech-writer on Capitol Hill. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

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