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

She has showcased her short films and collaborative works worldwide at the 68th 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.

A member of the A.W.D. Alliance of Women Directors, Jessica holds an unwavering egalitarian perspective. Realising early on that equal standing between men and women was in question throughout the vast spectrum of entertainment, she promptly 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.

Fluent in English and French with proficiency in Indonesian, German, Italian and Spanish after having grown up in Europe to later study and work in America and after having spent significant time in Southeast Asia, Jessica draws from deep, complex cultural resources and 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 has come to know from refugees to academics to musicians fuse with the experiences from her earlier endeavours in fine art, acting, piano, dance and literature to bring layered and complex characters to life in stories written off the beaten path.  Above all else, she is most motivated by and believes in love and holds onto her childhood wish for everyone to be cared and accounted for in the hope that humankind will evolve into a much more altruistic and sage species.