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• WINTER 2014 •
Recently... The last six months have been busy with back-to-back pilots working with the remarkable Cate Haight! I've been the assistant editor on some great projects for Amazon, including Transparent, an edgy family comedy from the brilliant brain of Jill Soloway, starring Jeffrey Tambor as a transgendered dad, and Mozart in the Jungle, a fun Jason Schwartzman/Roman Coppola-penned New York story about sex, drugs, and classical music.
Also, I cut a touching, laugh-out-loud feature documentary called Mortified Nation, and it's airing right now on the Sundance Channel and available on iTunes & Amazon. Called "inspiring", "comedy gold", and "subversively profound" by LA Weekly, Wired, and The Guardian respectively, it's about a hilarious theater project wherein ordinary people get up on stage and share their childhood diaries, letters, and artwork with hundreds of complete strangers – watch it soon! You can also listen to me tell mortifying stories from my own adolescence on the JV Club, comic actress Janet Varney's fun lady-teen-themed podcast!
Other recent projects include the indie feature Beach Pillows, starring Geoffrey Arend, Vincent Kartheiser, and Richard Schiff, the viral hit Caine's Arcade, which became a Vimeo Staff Pick, and resulted in a lot of spilled ink, and a short film called IRL, starring Sky Ferreira, Damien Echols and Genesis P-Orridge. Read more about IRL here.
Jessica's diaries are about working for her mom's cleaning-lady business as a kid.
One of my favorite childhood documents from Mortified Nation.