Biography

Jess X. Snow is a non-binary writer/director, producer, multi-disciplinary artist, poet of the JiangXi Chinese diaspora. They bring their background in murals, visual art and poetry into their sensorial films which bring the inner healing journeys of queer Asian migrants to the big screen.

Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, they have written and directed four short films that can be watched on the Criterion Channel and the National Film Board of Canada. They previously screened at university classrooms and film festivals worldwide: including BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BlackStar, Ann Arbor, Durban (Special Mention of the Jury). They are a Film Independent Fast Track fellow for their debut narrative feature, When The River Split Open.

Recently, they served as a producer and cinematographer on We Were The Scenery (Sundance Short Film Jury Award for Non-Fiction) shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards and named a best short of the year by Vimeo Staff Picks and Film Comment. They received their MFA in screenwriting and directing from NYU in 2023.

Their work has been written about in Current, Deadline, Hyperallergic, Filmmaker Magazine, Screenslate, the LA Times, Journal of Asian American Studies and elsewhere. Specializing in cross-cultural and multi-lingual storytelling, their films have taken them across North America and to China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jess X. Snow