Director

Mick Lexington — screenplay and direction

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Director's Statement

When Raymond Turturro watched back dailies from scene 23, the scene where he and Ashlie Burgun play Val and Jenna, he said: "It felt like I was eavesdropping."

Val and Jenna try to say what they mean. They fail. They interrupt each other. They say the wrong thing. In the end, Jenna asks Val why he never just told her. He has no answer.

This is what I am making. Not drama. Not performance. The thing underneath: the moment where two people are so close to the truth they can feel it, and still can't reach it.

Mr. Jack is a film about what it costs to withhold. Val Shepard comes back to New York City to reclaim a life he abandoned, and finds that the world didn't wait for him. Jackson King shows him everything he was afraid to become. Jenna shows him everything he was afraid to want. The film doesn't let either of them off the hook. It doesn't let the audience off the hook either.

— Mick Lexington, screenplay and direction

Bio

Mick Lexington is a New York City-based filmmaker and novelist whose work is driven by a single obsession: the hidden engine beneath human behavior, not what people do, but why.

With complete authorial command of the material, his directorial approach is built on radical authenticity and deep actor trust.

His short film work has earned 27 awards and screened at over 60 festivals worldwide, including a Best Director award from the Grand New York Film Awards. He serves on the judging panel for the Global Undergraduate Awards in Music, Film, and Theatre Studies, Dublin, Ireland.

His collaborators consistently describe him as one of the best directors they have worked with. When Raymond Turturro watched back dailies from scene 23, his response was immediate: "It felt like I was eavesdropping."

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