About

Jessica Jones is an Emmy® nominated documentary filmmaker and editor. Her work often focuses on community, cultural representation, and racial equity through character-driven narratives.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow, and she was a part of the inaugural 2019 cohort for the Re-Take Oakland fellowship program. She was a part of Webby award winning If Cities Could Dance filmmaking team and @instagram team. In 2016, she received an Emmy® nomination for “Women Dancers Redefine Oakland’s Street Dancing Scene”, published on KQED Arts. She is a part of the creative team behind Mixed People’s History, and in 2019 she founded Mae Shore Productions. In 2021, she completed a short film ON THE PULSE OF LIFE, which screened at the Smithsonian FUTURES exhibit.

She has served as an assistant editor for multiple feature documentaries, such as “A Fragile Trust” (Independent Lens, Dir: Samantha Grant), “A New Color” (Dir: Mo Morris), and an associate editor for “Voices Rising: Music of Wakanda Forever” (Disney+, Dir: Bernardo Ruiz). She has edited numerous short documentaries, which have appeared on the New York Times, KQED, the BBC and @instagram, among other publications. She recently edited BORN FOR THIS, a feature documentary following one family as they plan and hope for a home birth.

A resident of Oakland for almost 10 years, Jessica freelance edits documentary features and shorts. Currently, she is directing and editing a short documentary called WOMEN WHO RIDE, about Oakland’s first Black all-women motorcycle club, and is a consulting producer for DELIVERING JUSTICE. In her spare time, she is dancing with her toddler, attempting to relearn the piano, and reading fiction.