Education
Born in Walnut Creek, California, Lessner was raised in Roseburg, Oregon, where he attended Roseburg High School. He graduated in 2005 from Chapman University, where he studied film.
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The film is included on the sixth issue of Wholphin Digital Video Disc magazine with alternate audio versions by John Cleese and Daniel Handler. Darling Darling was included the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival"s Retrospective 2014: the twenty-first century American short films. Lessner"s second short film, By Modern Measure, premiered at South by Southwest and screened at 30 film festivals including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
In January 2011 the Sundance Institute released "By Modern Measure" on The YouTube Screening room as part of its Sundance Film Festival Classics series.
The film premiered internationally at the Stockholm Film Festival. In March of 2014 Chapel Perilous was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Lessner directed and produced several videos for British Broadcasting Corporation Collective with bands including Black Dice and The Fiery Furnaces. In 2011 Lessner created and directed the web series "Make a Friend" for the French website Konbini. work.
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Lessner"s directorial debut was the 2005 short film Darling Darling starring Michael Cera, which screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Comedia, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival where Lessner won the Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker Award. His third short film, Chapel Perilous featuring Sun Araw was an official selection at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Short Film Audience Award.
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