Deborah J. Chesebro

Deborah J. Chesebro

History

Debbie is a creative Producer with over 15 years of experience in production, post production, accounting and finance, feature films, commercials, and new media. Debbie has worked for the past 15 years in finance/accounting for 20th Century Fox, Paramount Studios and Netflix. She has worked internationally on productions in Jordan, Mexico, Namibia and Cambodia. More recently, she has moved into producing having worked with commercial and branded clients as diverse as TransMedics, Ford, Motorola, Neuro, Ultimate Ears, Grape Nuts, Air New Zealand, Subway, Audi, The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Association, the American Pet Product Association and Lasvegas.com. Her work has been apart of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival's Director's Night Showcase and won Best in Show at the 2009 W3 Awards for Comedy - Short Category. She was Senior Producer at the online comedy collective Jash, funded by Google and founded by Adam Carolla, Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts and the comedy duo, Tim & Eric. She produced the company's live channel launches at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest as well as the company's online content. She produced Michael Cera's short film "Gregory Goes Boom" which won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival's Shorts Competition. Her screenplay "Prom Queen", written with Tyson FitzGerald, won several awards including the 2010 Script Pipeline Screenwriting competition and has made the finals of the AAA Screenwriting Competition as well as the semi-finals of Nicholl Fellowship. "Prom Queen" was optioned by Jeremy Garelick and Classy Films in August 2016. She graduated from the USC School of Cinema-Television.

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Deborah J. Chesebro

Movies

The Matchmaker
Producer
Terrified that his mother may not find the important mental stimulation he believes will stave off Alzheimer's Disease, Sam sets out to find her the Perfect Best Friend within her new retirement community, with hilarious and poignant results.
Rubberhead
Producer
Sarah Silverman hosts the first episode of Rubberhead - a night of comedy shorts featuring some of her favorite performers. With comedy from Nathan Barnatt, Jade Catta-Preta, Michael Cassidy, Shelby Fero, Nathan Fielder, David Dineen-Porter, Kyle Dunnigan, Brett Gelman, Todd Glass, Lauren Lapkus, Natasha Leggero, Emily Maya Mills, Tig Notaro, John C Reilly, Seth Rogen, Nick Rutherford, Rob Schrab, Paul Rust, Laura Silverman, Stoney Sharp, Armen Weitzman, Kulap Vilaysack, Eric Wareheim, Harris Wittels, Charlyne Yi and more!
The Great Heidecker/Scharpling Twitter War
Supervising Producer
A great twitter war broke out between Tim Heidecker and Tom Scharpling.
Gregory Go Boom
Line Producer
A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life on the outside is not like he had imagined it.
Flight of the Phoenix
Assistant Accountant
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.