Biography

Jessica Anthony is a producer, writer, director and impact strategist with over two decades of experience in live action, animation and visual effects. In 2015 she produced the award winning film THE MASK YOU LIVE IN (Sundance/Netflix) directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In 2016 Anthony partnered with filmmaker Kelly Duane de la Vega to produce and direct the short film SUPREME COURT VS. THE AMERICAN VOTER (NyTimes Op Doc). Also in 2016, she produced director Guetty Felin’s narrative feature AYITI MON AMOUR, a magical neo-realistic fable set in Haiti, which premiered at Toronto in 2016 and was shortlisted for an Oscar. Anthony produced and co-directed the award winning documentary feature IN THE BONES (Atlanta Film Festival 2022/Grasshopper Films) a project supported by Sundance, Ford Foundation, IDA, and Catapult, directed and co-produced by de la Vega. Her most recent projects include the upcoming documentary memoir VIVIEN’S WILD RIDE, an ITVS supported film by Vivien Hillgrove that follows a visual artist as she loses her sight, and IN WAVES AND WAR, a feature documentary that follows a group of retired Navy SEALs who find hope in a Mexican clinic where they undergo psychedelic-assisted therapy, directed by Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen. Jessica is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay.