In 1993, Jacques and Diane Gaidry co-founded Filmmakers Alliance, and as President, he built the grassroots collective from a loose-knit group of filmmakers into an important independent filmmaking resource organization with films screening at every major festival in the world. He has overseen the production of hundreds of films and developed a wide range of innovative and impactful filmmaking support programs.

In 2004, Jacques and partner Liam Finn formed
FA Productions, of which they are Co-Presidents. FA Productions 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. In 2005, he was named Chief Community Officer of the festival submission/filmmaker support site, Withoutabox.com.

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 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 (Mill Valley Film Festival, Best Comedy Short – Cinequest Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Short – Methodfest) and Love Without Socks (AFI International Film Festival).

Jacques has recently finished a new feature film script, Rust, as well as the script for Red White And Blue as one of ten filmmakers involved in the feature-length omnibus project. He is currently finishing the script for his next feature film, Hurricane Jane, which begins pre-production in late 2008.

Jacques has spoken at dozens of panels, seminars, workshops and classes. He was also on the board of directors for The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (now the FIND Los Angeles Film Festival) and currently sits on the advisory board of the IFP Emerging Filmmaker Labs as well as the boards of the Silver Lake Film Festival and The Ashland Independent Film Festival.

Shorts Judge