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 over 100 million views online.​ Most recently, Jess wrapped on BIFA and BAFTA-qualifying proof-of-concept short OUTSIDE NOISE with writer/director Ethan Evans which won production funding from CenterFrame. The award-winning short is exec produced by Jed Shepherd & Alex Noyer, is official selection at the 68th BFI London Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards.

 

As a writer, most recently, Jess has completed an independently written female-led horror spec script as well as multiple horror feature scripts co-written with Ethan Evans. Jess has written several episodes of TV on two HBO Max horror series. Jess was also one of the 2023 Killer Shorts horror screenplay contest winners and a semi-finalist in 2024.

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Jess is a Bafta Connect member and has participated in schemes such as Creative UK's Foundations Programme, BFI Shorts2Features, the BFI New Producers Lab and as a mentor on the BFI Creative Mentoring scheme.

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Jess graduated from the University of Gloucestershire 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. Click here for press.