SKILLS
Accents, Basketball, Baseball, Football
Music - Singing, Drums
Video Editing - Final Cut Pro HD, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Computer Graphics

Producer: Johnny Virus  www.johnnyvirus.com
                  Pistol Whipped  www.uprisefilms.com
 

Jesse Tyler Gullion was born June 20th, 1985.  In his early childhood years, Jesse developed passions for three things that would prove to be signposts for his future.  The first was a fascination with computers and technology, the second was a love of photography, and in particular the family video camera with which he began making backyard videos with his neighborhood friends.  The third was being an annual participant of summer theatre camps. 

Although at the time, there were no thoughts of pursuing a career in acting, the passion that Jesse found through the freedom of artistic expression was one that made the later transition a perfect fit.  These three elements fused together when Jesse inherited a MAC G4 computer, branded with Apple's Final Cut Pro 2.0.  His focus became tunnel-visioned, absorbing the process of non linear video editing.  He purchased books and studied 'the making of' for numerous films.  In 8th grade, he directed, wrote, and edited A Day In The Life, a touching, two-part short chronicling the school year.  The film was shown at the school's commencement ceremonies.  It was then that Jesse's focus had become finite, in the realm of creativity, and the ultimate pursuance of a career in the arts.

Throughout high school at Flintridge Preparatory Jesse continued shooting and editing short music videos and handheld daily documentaries of the life around him.  In addition, he continued acting in his school's theater program.  His endeavors culminated in his senior year when he played the part of Henry Higgins in the winter production of My Fair Lady.  For his senior thesis project, Jesse made The Power of Revenge, a 45 minute film which he wrote, directed, shot, edited and acted in.  It was a rousing success when shown to a jam packed theatre at the school.  Following his graduation from high school, Jesse and his sister, Rebecca, formed a production company, Gulch Entertainment.

In February 2005, they were approached by writer-director W.W. Vought, President of Come Ride The Dark Horse, Inc., to co-produce the independent feature film, Johnny Virus.  Over the next eight months, the film was completed.  In addition to his role as producer, Jesse also served as editor and post production supervisor on the film. 

In 2007 Jesse started his own production company UPrise Films to develop, produce and output high quality short films.  After a successful few months the goal expanded to bring together talented and truly dedicated professionals within the industry in order to continue raising the bar towards excellance.