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About

BRAIN JAIL PRODUCTIONS is an independent film and television production company from the minds of writers and producers Lennon Nersesian and Christopher Rosenbluth. Friends since high school, Nersesian and Rosenbluth have worked together on creative projects for more than 20 years. Their screenwriting has earned recognition from the Page International Screenwriting Awards, the Expose It! Comedy Screenplay Competition, and other prestigious platforms.​

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LENNON NERSESIAN is a writer, film editor, and producer. He is the editor of the award-winning 2014 documentary Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro about music legend Desmond Child’s 10-year journey to parenthood (Best Documentary, ARPA International Film Festival and Best of Fest honors, Palm Springs International Film Festival). He is also the editor of In Our Backyard (Best Feature Documentary, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Silver Spotlight Winner, Spotlight Documentary Film Awards). He most recently produced the feature documentary, Catnip Nation (Best Documentary; Hoboken International Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, and Kansas International Film Festival).

CHRISTOPHER ROSENBLUTH received degrees in Magazine Journalism and Philosophy from Syracuse University, where he was a founding editor of the nationally renowned Jerk magazine. After starting his career in journalism, he earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. His collection of short fiction titled Talking As Men Do was awarded the Mercedes Jacobs Book Prize. His other honors include winning the Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship and twice earning the honor's Honorable Mention; twice winning the Sutherland-McManus Award for Creative Nonfiction; and receiving the Emerson Award for Outstanding Writing. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous distinguished publications. He has written, produced, edited and directed several of his own short films.

 

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

– Thomas Merton

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