Talent Guide
Jessica Kingdon
- Discipline:Director, Producer
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2020
Bio
Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American filmmaker named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her upcoming feature Untitled PRC Project is supported by organizations including SFFILM, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Cinereach, Sundance, and Field of Vision. Her award-winning short Commodity City (2017) played at over 50 film festivals. She co-directed It’s Coming! (2020), which is currently playing festivals, and Routine Island (2019), which is in The Eyeslicer Season Two. Producer credits include Tania Cypriano’s Born To Be (NYFF 2019), Nathan Truesdell’s The Water Slide (True/False 2018) and Johnny Ma’s Old Stone (Berlinale 2016). She is a Firelight Media Lab Fellow.
Current Project
Untitled PRC ProjectLogline
Untitled PRC Project is a kaleidoscopic journey through China’s industrial supply chain, revealing paradoxes born from prosperity of the world’s emergent superpower.