Orpheus pictures

Jessica is a director, writer and producer with a passion for stories that tap into hidden histories, thrilling investigations, world literature, science, existential angst and dysfunctional relationships. She is drawn to complicated, flawed individuals wrestling with matters of the heart and their place in society and the universe. 

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Writer and director credits include: Alchemy of the Word (2025), a drama short about the damned poets, Rimbaud and Verlaine; 250 Years of Jane Austen  (2025), a documentary about Austen's legacy for the Jane Austen Society UK; Love is a Hand Grenade (2021), which played at BFI Flare, Flickers' Rhode Island's Roving Eye, Bolton and Show Me Shorts; Sadeh (2021), a documentary short that screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival, Iris Prize, AmDocs and Cinequest; and an episode of the cybercrime docuseries, Hacker:Hunter (2021); She has worked in immersive and theatre including writing and directing the immersive murder mystery, Wedded to Murder (2024); and translating/directing The Kahena: Berber Queen (2022) as part of Global Jewish Voices at the Bush Theatre.  Jessica  produced the BIFA-longlisted feature, Love Type D (2019), and is an Associate Producer on the upcoming feature, Brighton Storeys (2025).

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Jessica has a number of TV, feature and theatre projects in development. Her TV pilot for Barren, a female-led HETV thriller series set in a fertility clinic is in development with Misfits Entertainment. The pilot script was selected for the 2025 WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab, shortlisted for the 2025 TIFF’s Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch, and is the recipient of a 2025 Society of Authors' Authors’ Foundation grant. Her narrative feature, Bambi, ​telling the origin story of the world's most famous deer, received a development grant from the 2025 Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Fund and is the recipient of a 2026 grant from the Anglo-Austrian Society's Otto Harpner Fund. Jessica has been selected for the Criterion New Writing scheme 2026 with her new theatre project, Mademoiselle Manet, exploring Manet and Morisot's story of love and art. Jessica’s pilot script for her TV series, The Real Margot, was shortlisted for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Award 2021. As a director, she is developing a genre-bending feature, Vamped, with writer Kate Thorman, which was a finalist for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab 2024. Her investigative documentary, The Ridge, is in funded development with EMMY-winning Submarine Entertainment. ​​​​

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In 2016, Jessica was awarded the Cointreau Creative Crew Grant for creative entrepreneurs and named Marie Claire's 'Wonder Woman' of the month, which was interpreted as tacit permission to embrace her love of French literature and art. Her international upbringing and heritage continues to inspire her work and practice.