Jessica Sanders: After Innocence
Writer, Director, Producer*

Sanders at Santa Barbara Premiere of After Innocence

Jessica Sanders is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who works in fiction and non-fiction productions. She produced the film Sing! which received Oscar and Emmy nominations in 2002. Her previous film, Los Angels, a narrative film that she wrote, produced, and directed, played at numerous festivals and received the Gold Plaque Award at the Chicago International Festival, the Lagniappe Best Short Film at the New Orleans Festival, among other awards. Sanders was an Associate Producer on the 2003 Academy® Award-Winning documentary short film Twin Towers and Series Associate Producer and Camera Operator on Dick Wolf's NBC documentary series Crime & Punishment. Sanders is an alumna of the Independent Feature Project's Project Involve and completed the filmmaker's fellowship program of IFP's Producer's Lab, where she was among a select group of filmmakers chosen to develop Independent film projects. She is completing the short narrative films Stormy Weather and Pool King and is currently in development on both documentary and narrative feature films.

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