Biography

Jessie most-recently produced the feature documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, with Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney for HBO that premiered at the 2019 Sundance film festival. Jessie also produced Do You Trust This Computer?, a feature documentary about artificial intelligence. Jessie directed and produced A Revolution in Four Seasons, profiling Tunisia after the Arab Spring, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2016. Her other directing and producing credits include Spark: A Burning Man Story, which debuted at SXSW in 2013 and aired on Showtime and Death by Fire which opened PBS's FRONTLINE season in 2010. Jessie is the producer of Who Killed the Electric Car? (Sony Pictures Classics, 2006) and she produced Revenge of the Electric Car, which aired on PBS's Independent Lens in 2011. She also produced on Alex Gibney's Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Jessie has an MJ and MA from UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright scholar in Oman, Morocco and Tunisia in 2010-11.
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