Jess X. Snow is a filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, writer and cultural worker of the JiangXi Chinese diaspora. Through a wide range of mediums—their work explores immigrant mental health, the collective unwellness of the American dream, kinships across cultures and species and abolitionist futures.
Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's
25 New Faces of Independent Film, their genre-bending
short films embrace how flawed Asian queers live, heal, rebel and refuse with bold visuals and poetic lyricism. A prolific writer/director who sometimes stars in their own work, Jess’s shorts have been taught widely in university classrooms and screened at 50+ film festivals worldwide such as BlackStar, New Orleans, Ann Arbor, BFI London Flare, Outfest LA and Durban International Film Festival.
They are currently in development for their first feature,
WHEN THE RIVER SPLIT OPEN, a selected project at the 2023
Cine Qua Non Lab. A member of the
Justseeds Artist Co-operative, prior to filmmaking, they spent a decade creating artwork for social movements; leading dozens of community murals on the streets of NYC, Atlanta, Bay Area, and Philadelphia that have been featured on PBS, the LA Times, Hyperallergic and elsewhere.
Along with their artistic practice, they’ve shared their artist talks and films at hundreds of universities, high schools, conferences and organizations, and taught screenwriting and community mural making to students of all ages and backgrounds.
Learn More: http://www.jessxsnow.com