Biography

Jess Bond is a writer and director living and working between New York City and Los Angeles.

Jess received a recommendation to NYU Tisch School of The Arts from Martin Scorsese based on a short film she made in high school. She earned her BFA at NYU with a major in Directing and minors in Sociology and Art History.

Her senior film "Liminality" received multiple Tisch awards and was showcased at The Director's Guild of America, where it won an Audience Award. Jess was also awarded the Tisch Richard Vague & Chris Columbus Production Grant, given to one alumnus a year, for her feature screenplay "The Beautiful Ordinary".

Jess produced and directed "The Beautiful Ordinary", a coming-of-age dramedy about several different teenagers on their last day of high school, set in 1999. The film was shot on 35mm and starred Amber Heard, Brie Larson, Leighton Meester, and Melonie Diaz. The film was nominated by the Casting Society of America for "Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Low Budget Feature".

Jess has directed various music videos and shorts including the Funny or Die cult hit "Sad-Off" starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anne Hathaway.

In 2017 Jess directed her second feature she also wrote called "Rosy", a psycho-sexual thriller about a man who kidnaps his crush. The film received a Panavision Grant and was shot on 35mm in NYC. It stars Stacy Martin, Nat Wolff, Tony Shalhoub and Johnny Knoxville.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kaplan / Perrone

I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond, in place of my present name. [In Manhattan Supreme Court, Jess explained why she wants to revert to her mother's maiden name.]

I am a passionate liberal and a registered Democrat and this has been difficult for me. Although I am 'the daughter of,' I am very much my own person and hopefully people can realize that. [Her explanation for trying to distance herself from Paul Manafort, her father, and his criminal convictions.]