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Jessica M. Thompson is an Australian film and television writer, director, editor and producer, who resides in Los Angeles.[1]

Early life and education

Thompson grew up in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, Australia and is of partial Maltese heritage. Thompson studied at the Sydney Theatre Company[2][3] and University of Technology Sydney, where she received a B.A. in Media Arts and Production.[4]

Career

Thompson worked as a film editor in Sydney, before moving to New York City in 2010, where she founded Stedfast Productions.[2] She edited Cheryl Furjanic's documentary, Back on Board, which premiered on HBO in August 2015[5] and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2016.[6] Thompson has also worked as a film editor with filmmakers Liz Garbus and Edet Belzberg.[7]

Thompson made her feature writing and directorial debut with The Light of the Moon (2017), starring Stephanie Beatriz, Michael Stahl-David, and Conrad Ricamora. It had its premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival[8] in March 2017, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Film.[9] Critics called the film "harrowingly effective" (Variety),[10] "honest and complex" (The Hollywood Reporter),[11] and Film Inquiry stated that, “For any filmmaker this would be an unmitigated triumph, but for a first time filmmaker this is revelatory.”[12] The Light of the Moon had a limited North American theatrical release in November–December 2017.[13] The film has a 97% score on review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[14]

Thompson was the lead director on Showtime's ten-part television series The End (2020), starring Harriet Walter and Frances O'Connor,[15] produced by the Academy-Award-winning, See-Saw Films.[16]

In 2022, Thompson directed her second feature film, The Invitation, a Sony Pictures horror-thriller starring Nathalie Emmanuel, and written by Thompson and Blair Butler.[17] It was released in cinemas worldwide on August 26, 2022.[18][19]

Personal life

In 2010, Thompson moved from Sydney, Australia to Brooklyn, New York. She lived in the Williamsburg neighborhood[20] for more than eight years before moving to Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2008	Hike	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Percepio	Yes	Yes	No	No
2012	Three	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	Across the Pond	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Notes
2017	The Light of the Moon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Role: Waitress
2022	The Invitation	Yes	No	No	No

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2020	The End	6 episodes

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	419	Associate Producer
	Love, Marilyn	Associate editor and production manager	Documentary film
2013	The Abominable Crime	Additional editor
2014	Watchers of the Sky
	Back on Board: Greg Louganis	Editor

References

External links

• Jessica M. Thompson at IMDb

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