<style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-charset:77; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal">Jess is a native of Los Angeles, California, and became a filmmaker at a young age. In 2001, she was included in the High School Division of the Los Angeles Film with a short she wrote, directed and produced. She fell in love with the East when she moved to Philadelphia to study neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania before graduating and beginning to professionally produce for a Philadelphia-based newspaper. Moving to New York in 2009, Jess worked with Producer Dean Silvers (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Manny & Lo</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Flirting with Disaster</i>) as the production manager on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">One Fall</i> and in marketing on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Enlighten Up!</i>. She began the MBA/MFA program in Producing at New York University in 2010 and has already produced the thesis <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Henry</i> and worked as the Producer of Marketing and Distribution on the student-Oscar regional finalist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Crazy Glue</i>.</p>