Film Intensive with Sundance Fellow and Writer/Director Jessie Barr
Don't miss this intensive with Jessie Barr, writer-director and Sundance fellow with a background in acting, independent film, and theater.
Jessie is currently attached to direct IRIS written by Academy-award nominee Zach Baylin and is developing a number of new projects as a writer-director for both film and TV.
Jessie’s critically acclaimed, award-winning feature debut, "Sophie Jones" premiered in competition at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2021.
The film holds a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes and is streaming on Showtime. Jessie won Best Director at the 2022 Lost Weekend Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester). The film won Best Feature Film (NEXT) at the Americana Film Festival 2022 (Barcelona, Spain).
Variety hailed the film as a “fully realized portrait of grief that’s universal in its texture.” “Superb,” says Roger Ebert. The Playlist called it, “Coming-of-age at its best. A quiet, brilliant film.”
Jessie was a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. The series she co-created went on to be developed with Warner Brothers Television and Tall Baby Productions. She’s shadowed numerous TV directors including Leslye Headland, Stuart McDonald, and her first mentor, the late Lynn Shelton.
Jessie’s short, "Too Long at the Fair" (2018), premiered on Short of the Week and won NoBudge’s Short Film of the Year. Her original series, "Om City" (2015), premiered at Tribeca, was a New York Times TV Critic’s pick, Vimeo Staff Pick, voted Best Web Series by Decider, and “Web to Watch” by USA Today. She is a PEN America Writer's Grant Recipient (2020), an Oregon Made Film Grant Recipient (2019), and has been featured by the National Board of Review.
EVENT OVERVIEW:
For the intensive, you'll start off with a Q&A, and then Jessie will begin working with you with a reader, on-camera, in a group format. Be prepared for feedback and adjustments as she will coach and critique your work, tweak your material and share invaluable information.
Jessie will select sides based on your HS/resume submission which you will be emailed and prepare in advance.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
School Notes:
Class end time will vary depending on the number of actors and the scenes that are assigned. Registrants are advised to budget extra time, as class time may run over.