ABOUT


Jess Bartlett is an award-winning writer/producer with bases in SE and SW England. She has written and produced a large number of short films including BBC Arts and ACE funded projects, one of which is streaming on BBC iPlayer.
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As a Company Director at Terror Arcade, Jess is currently in development for multiple projects, including their debut feature film. Their lockdown short TIME OUT went viral, accumulating 90+ million views online.​ Most recently, Jess wrapped on proof-of-concept short OUTSIDE NOISE with writer/director Ethan Evans which won production funding from CenterFrame. The short is exec produced by Jed Shepherd & Alex Noyer and is official selection at The 68th BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica and Oscar/Bafta-qualifying Leeds International Film Festival.
As a writer, most recently, Jess has completed an independently written female-led horror spec script along with multiple horror feature scripts co-writing with Ethan Evans. Jess was also one of the 2023 Killer Shorts horror screenplay contest winners and was a semi-finalist in 2024. Jess has written several episodes of TV on horror series URBAN LEGEND and THE HAUNTED MUSEUM both produced by Eli Roth, which are available on HBO Max.
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Jess is a Bafta Connect member and has participated in schemes such as BFI Shorts2Features, as a mentor on the 2022 BFI Creative Mentoring scheme and completed the BFI New Producers Lab.
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Jess graduated from the University of Gloucestershire in 2018 with a First Class Honours Degree in Film Production with an additional 'School of Media Creativity Prize'.
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Jess is repped by Elissa Friedman at Zero Gravity Management.