Jessica Polim is an award-winning director, writer & producer from London.

She has showcased her short films and collaborative works worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Illinois International Film Festival and the Terror Film Festival amongst others and won the Best Music Video category for ‘Flowers’, a piece weaving animation around live action dance and fantasy sequences.

Jessica creates content internationally for such companies as FOX mobile, iAM Enterprises, Dreamfire Games, iOS, ReKon Productions, Big Champion and more.  Versatile by nature, she thrives across a scope of genres, namely, thriller and comedy and often sets a palpable atmosphere in her work.

Encouraged early on in her studies to join existing female-led collectives and found new ones championing male objectification, Jessica holds an unwavering egalitarian perspective. Realising that equal standing between men and women was in question throughout the vast spectrum of entertainment, she made it one of her missions to recalibrate the imbalance.  With this in focus, she received her MFA in Film Production in Los Angeles.  Her stories often centre around strong characters on the fringes of society who find themselves thrown into provocative dilemmas.

Growing up multilingual in Europe to then study and work in America whilst spending extensive periods in Asia, Jessica draws from deeply complex cultural resources with a synthesised perspective as a third culture kid.  Inspiration for her storytelling arises from a lifelong curiosity about the chemistry between people.  The breadth of her travel history and diversity of communities she came to know closely from refugees to academics to musicians fuse with the experiences from her earlier endeavours in fine art, music, literature and performing arts to bring layered and challenging characters to life in stories written off the beaten path.  Above all else, she is most motivated by and believes in love and holds on to her childhood wish for every person to be cared and accounted for in the hope that humankind will evolve into a  more altruistic and sage species.