Jessica is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. Her work explores how personal elements like gender and identity connect with broader cultural narratives and often experiments with subverting and blending genres. Her short films’ Between Realities Along the Edge of Time (2021) premiered at Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and Bing! Bang! Bi! (2020) screened at several festivals including Inside Out and Frameline. Jessica produced and starred in the short film Taos (2019), which won a Jury Award at the Santa Fe International Film Festival. As an actor, she has guest starred in numerous television series and was the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of independent theatre company, Heart in Hand. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Inside Out's RE:Focus Fund and acquired for broadcast by CBC.
Her co-written feature The Way Out is in development with Babe Nation Films and was selected for the Mubi/Wscripted 2022 Cannes Screenplay List. Currently Jessica is completing her MFA in Screenwriting at York University and developing her first solo feature with Nice Picture.