John Chester is a documentary filmmaker, TV director, and cinematographer. During his high school years he made student films in his hometown, the mainly seasonal resort town of Ocean City, Maryland, USA. but later lived in the Los Angeles area where he worked as a Production assistant on a well-known TV mystery series for the 1994 season. By 1995, he was again working on the East Coast employed by the Baltimore County Public Schools as a TV producer for The Education Channel in Towson, Maryland, the school system's PEG-TV station. In 1997 he directed an unreleased 16mm low-budget independent narrative feature film shot on Assateague Island near his boyhood home. Since then, Chester has produced, directed, and shot productions for Animal Planet, ESPN, the A&E Network and various nonprofit clients. Similar to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Chester has cast himself as a prominent character in several of his own projects, most notably the "Touched by a Slacker" documentary-style reality TV series Random 1 and its feature-length film sequel Lost in Woonsocket.