Jessica M. Thompson
Jessica M. Thompson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on March 31st, 1985 and is the Film Director. At the age of 39, Jessica M. Thompson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Thompson worked as a film editor in Sydney, before moving to New York City in 2010, where she founded Stedfast Productions. She edited Cheryl Furjanic's documentary, Back on Board, which premiered on HBO in August 2015 and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2016. Thompson has also worked as a film editor with filmmakers Liz Garbus and Edet Belzberg.
Thompson made her feature writing and directorial debut with The Light of the Moon (2017), starring Stephanie Beatriz, Michael Stahl-David, and Conrad Ricamora. It had its premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in March 2017, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Film. Critics called the film "harrowingly effective" (Variety), "honest and complex" (The Hollywood Reporter), and Film Inquiry stated that, “For any filmmaker this would be an unmitigated triumph, but for a first time filmmaker this is revelatory.” The Light of the Moon had a limited North American theatrical release in November–December 2017. The film has a 97% score on review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Thompson was the lead director on Showtime's ten-part television series The End (2020), starring Harriet Walter and Frances O'Connor, produced by the Academy-Award-winning, See-Saw Films.
In 2022, Thompson directed her second feature film, The Invitation, a Sony Pictures horror-thriller starring Nathalie Emmanuel, and written by Thompson and Blair Butler. It was released in cinemas worldwide on August 26, 2022.