Jessica is an award winning filmmaker director fascinated by subcultures and myth, as well as exploring universal themes embedded in our daily lives and thoughts; exposing the magic in the mundane.
Her work has been screened internationally at festivals such as Sheffield Doc/Fest, Aspen Shortsfest, AFI DOCS and London Short Film Festival. She has been awarded funding by Film London, Channel4, Barbican and Arts Council. Her short documentary films have been nominated twice for the Best Director Award at Underwire Film Festival and her 3-minute short film Lifespan was broadcast on Channel4 Random Acts. Her films have featured on The Atlantic, WeTransfer, NOWNESS and Aeon; receiving several Vimeo Staff Pick awards.
Currently she is in production with a short documentary funded by Doc Society and BFI, which was selected for the Short Form Station development lab at Berlinale 2020. She was also selected from over 3,000 applications to represent the UK as a director at Berlinale Talents 2020.
Projects
- PAMPASPlants were used in 1970s British suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours or so rumour has it. A hybrid documentary exploring the truth in the botanical myth; what went on behind closed curtains? A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend. Commissioned by Channel4 Random Acts.
Projects credited in
Skills
- Film
- Writing
- Art Direction
- Final Cut Pro
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
- Premiere Pro
- Community Engagement
- Creative Producer
- Filmmaking
- Photograghy
- Documentary Films
- Creative Art Direction
- Documentary Production
Education
MA Social and Visual AnthropologyGoldsmiths, University of London
- London, United Kingdom
BA(Hons) Diploma in Professional Studies, Graphic and Media DesignLondon College of Communication, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
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