Bio

Jane Kelly Kosek is a storyteller through various media platforms. She develops, writes, and produces feature films, books, web series and television shows. In addition, she blogs about her journey in the film industry at www.AllAboutIndieFilmmaking.com and her passion for great wine and wine country at www.2HollywoodWinos.com. She is an Executive Producer of the So Natural TV YouTube Channel (a Web channel featuring sharp-witted shows for women) with Leena Pendharkar and often collaborates with Leslie Iwerks Productions to produce award-winning documentaries.

As a filmmaker, Jane has produced multiple shorts and feature films. In 2013, Jane began the second year of a five-year project: a feature-length documentary on the Disney Imagineering division. She is traveling the world producing shoots at various Disneyland locations with Leslie Iwerks Productions. Also in 2013, she produced a new short film titled Plain Clothes, written and directed by Parenthood‘s Sam Jaeger. In addition, she is in development on a modern-day Western titled Ashland with the writer/directors Lindy and Kris Boustedt.

In 2012, Jane produced the feature-length documentary Citizen Hearst, which premiered at the 2012 Hamptons Film Festival, and in 2011, Jane produced the short documentary on the Keystone XL Pipeline titled Pipe Dreams, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 2010, Jane produced the romantic drama The Diary of Preston Plummer, starring Trevor Morgan, Rumer Willis and Robert Loggia, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Miami International Film Festival. Also in 2010, she was a producer on the Starz documentary Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible.

In 2009, Jane produced the award-winning romantic comedy Take Me Home, starring Sam Jaeger and Amber Jaeger, which world-premiered at the 2011 Nashville Film Festival – where it won the Best Music in a Film award. In 2007, Jane produced and co-wrote the romantic drama Not Since You, starring Desmond Harrington, Kathleen Robertson and Christian Kane. Jane also executive produced Tennessee, starring Mariah Carey, which had its World Premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

Other titles that Jane has produced include the award-winning short film Gay Baby, the first adaptation of a Thomas Ligotti short story titled The Frolic, the micro-budget thriller Fierce Friend, and the drama Straight Line, which premiered at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Prior to producing, Jane worked with Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman on numerous studio productions, including Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind, Starsky & Hutch, Constantine, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She also worked in the publishing industry as a writer and editor. She is currently writing three feature-length comedies and two romantic comedy novellas.