Jessica Landaw

An L.A. native and recipient of a Women in Film ""Mentor Award"", Jessica holds

an M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute and a B.A. in Film &

Video from the University of Michigan. She also studied filmmaking at

Northwestern and USC. After college, she joined the Editor''''s Guild and began

working on such films as LOVE AFFAIR, THE WAR AT HOME, and POWER RANGERS: THE

MOVIE.

Her AFI thesis film UGLY NAKED PEOPLE has screened at 31 international film

festivals and won 12 awards, including Grand Prizes at the Producers Guild of

America Student Film Competition, BIEFF Student Video Expo, and the San Luis

Obispo Film Festival.

Recently, Jessica served as Video Unit Director on the Miramax / Dimension

feature HALLOWEEN 8. She also directed the award-winning comedic documentary

RACHEL, NEVADA, as well as several short films, a music video and 2 PSA''''s.

She has several feature screenplays currently in development, including THE

BANG/SMASH THEORY and BANANAFISH. She also writes music reviews for the

controversial website Napster.