Jess X. Snow
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Jess X. Snow is a non-binary filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, poet and educator of the JiangXi Chinese diaspora.
Recently named one Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, their short films center the desires, disobediences and dreams of flawed Chinese migrant queers. Safe Among Stars (2019) screened at BlackStar, Ann Arbor, Inside Out, and received the National Film Board of Canada Best Short Award (emerging) from Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. Little Sky (2021) screened at 50+ festivals worldwide including: BFI Flare, Outfest, Frameline, Cinequest (Best Student Short), and Durban International Film Festival (Special Mention) amongst others. Their forthcoming shorts include: Roots That Reach Toward The Sky (2023) which was supported by the Sloan Foundation for Science in Film and I Wanna Become The Sky (2023), premiering at New Orleans Film Festival this fall. Earlier this year, they received their MFA in writing/directing from NYU where they were a BAFTA BBC Diversity Scholar.
Their children's book, We Always Had Wings (Make Me A World/Random House) is forthcoming in 2025.Their features in development include When The River Split Open, (with co-writer, Yumeng Han), participated in the 2023 Cine Qua Non Script Revision Lab.
Prior to filmmaking, they spent a decade creating artwork for migrant, climate and racial justice movements. Their community-informed public art has been seen in The NY Times Magazine, The LA Times, PBS, Hulu, the SF Chronicle, Hyperallergic, and on walls across the continent.
Along with their artistic practice, they teach screenwriting and community mural-making to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Recently named one Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, their short films center the desires, disobediences and dreams of flawed Chinese migrant queers. Safe Among Stars (2019) screened at BlackStar, Ann Arbor, Inside Out, and received the National Film Board of Canada Best Short Award (emerging) from Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. Little Sky (2021) screened at 50+ festivals worldwide including: BFI Flare, Outfest, Frameline, Cinequest (Best Student Short), and Durban International Film Festival (Special Mention) amongst others. Their forthcoming shorts include: Roots That Reach Toward The Sky (2023) which was supported by the Sloan Foundation for Science in Film and I Wanna Become The Sky (2023), premiering at New Orleans Film Festival this fall. Earlier this year, they received their MFA in writing/directing from NYU where they were a BAFTA BBC Diversity Scholar.
Their children's book, We Always Had Wings (Make Me A World/Random House) is forthcoming in 2025.Their features in development include When The River Split Open, (with co-writer, Yumeng Han), participated in the 2023 Cine Qua Non Script Revision Lab.
Prior to filmmaking, they spent a decade creating artwork for migrant, climate and racial justice movements. Their community-informed public art has been seen in The NY Times Magazine, The LA Times, PBS, Hulu, the SF Chronicle, Hyperallergic, and on walls across the continent.
Along with their artistic practice, they teach screenwriting and community mural-making to people of all ages and backgrounds.