Jessie Barr
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Jessie Barr is a Writer-Director and Sundance fellow with a background in acting, independent film, and theater.
Her critically acclaimed, award-winning feature debut, "Sophie Jones" premiered in competition at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2021. The film holds a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes and is streaming on Showtime. Jessie won Best Director at the 2022 Lost Weekend Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester). The film won Best Feature Film (NEXT) at the Americana Film Festival 2022 (Barcelona, Spain).
Variety hailed the film as a "fully realized portrait of grief that's universal in its texture." "Superb," says Rodger Ebert. The Playlist called it, "Coming-of-age at its best. A quiet, brilliant film."
Jessie was a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. The series she co-created went on to be developed with Warner Brothers Television and Tall Baby Productions. Jessie's short, "Too Long at the Fair" (2018), premiered on Short of the Week and won NoBudge's Short Film of the Year. Her original series, "Om City" (2015), premiered at Tribeca, was a New York Times TV Critic's pick, Vimeo Staff Pick, voted Best Web Series by Decider, and "Web to Watch" by USA Today.
Jessie is a PEN America Writer's Grant Recipient (2020) and Oregon Made Film Grant Recipient (2019). She has been featured by Variety, the National Board of Review, and TalkHouse. She is a proud member of Free The Work and Film Fatales the nonprofit that advocates for gender parity in film and television.
Her critically acclaimed, award-winning feature debut, "Sophie Jones" premiered in competition at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2021. The film holds a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes and is streaming on Showtime. Jessie won Best Director at the 2022 Lost Weekend Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester). The film won Best Feature Film (NEXT) at the Americana Film Festival 2022 (Barcelona, Spain).
Variety hailed the film as a "fully realized portrait of grief that's universal in its texture." "Superb," says Rodger Ebert. The Playlist called it, "Coming-of-age at its best. A quiet, brilliant film."
Jessie was a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. The series she co-created went on to be developed with Warner Brothers Television and Tall Baby Productions. Jessie's short, "Too Long at the Fair" (2018), premiered on Short of the Week and won NoBudge's Short Film of the Year. Her original series, "Om City" (2015), premiered at Tribeca, was a New York Times TV Critic's pick, Vimeo Staff Pick, voted Best Web Series by Decider, and "Web to Watch" by USA Today.
Jessie is a PEN America Writer's Grant Recipient (2020) and Oregon Made Film Grant Recipient (2019). She has been featured by Variety, the National Board of Review, and TalkHouse. She is a proud member of Free The Work and Film Fatales the nonprofit that advocates for gender parity in film and television.