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''' Jesse Cilio (born October 17th, 1983) in Fredricksted, St.Croix is an American film director,screenwriter, photographer and abstract artist. He is best known for writing KILL'EM ALL with Jean Claude Van Damme and for writing PERFECT WEAPON with Steven Segal.

His love of movies came from watching them at the Wellfleet drive in movie theater as a kid with his parents in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. His first memories were being there and seeing Goonies and E.T. - "The magic I felt then as a child I still feel now as an adult with movies, its the only thing in the world that my perception hasn't changed as an adult."

As a young teenager he missed most of his senior year of high school and took the train everyday to NYC. He worked for Bernard Telsey Casting, where he read lines with actors for broadway plays such as Aida, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Wit, Wicked and Rent. He lied his way to get an assistant job, where he ended up leaving to attend college in LA. In LA he didn't study film, but art, where he really fell into his form. During college he got a job from a contact at Bernard Telsey working for Tony Scott where he would bring him his cigars and sit with him in his editing bay all night, where Tony would always make the first rough cut to all his films. "He taught me more in those late night meetings smoking cigars then in any college I could've attended for film, just me and him talking about stories and the art of telling them, he was a huge influence on me, and still is today."

At 25 he quit working, where he was a stage manager at a Architectual photography studio and started to paint full time. He painted day and night, he would sell all of his art work he painted at the melrose flea market in LA every Sunday for years.

He always wanted to make movies so he read a book on how to write a screenplay, It was called Adventures of Screen Trade by William Goldman, the guy who ghost wrote Good Will Hunting. He read the book, then he wrote a screenplay and then made a movie which was his first feature directed for $5,000 using all borrowed equipment and when ever he sold a painting he shot a scene. It played at a few small film festivals and art galleries such as the Ace Art Gallery in Beverly Hills.

The second screenplay he wrote he won the LA screenplay competition, the movie was optioned and never made. In between all this he started writing all the time, his painting supported his addiction to story telling. He wrote a Steven Segal movie in a week, where it now plays on Netflix called The Perfect Weapon, even though he never even seen a Steven Segal movie in his life.

He then got named by Russel Simmons the founder of Def Jam records and Bombay Saffire as one of the 25 emerging artists to come out of LA. He had a huge art show at Building Bridges Gallery in Santa Monica. Where he sold his art to the likes of Hans Zimmer, where it sits in his music studio to this day. Paris Hilton who later hired him to paint portrait pictures with all her dogs.

He's been published in art/pop culture magazines for his photographs all over the world including- space for.art -artcultureworld-highglossmagazine- white magazine-lafemmesauvage magazine- pop culture in pictures magazine- sticks and stones magazine- nakid magazine- rgsp magazine-