Jess X. Snow Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Jess X. Snow
Directing
Biography
Jess X. Snow is a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist and author envisioning futures where the most marginalized of land and life is sacred. 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 currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and the National Film Board of Canada. They previously screened at university classrooms and film festivals worldwide: including BFI London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BlackStar, Ann Arbor, and 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) currently 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. Specializing in cross-cultural and multi-lingual storytelling, their films have taken them across North America and to China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Prior to film, over the last decade they created dozens of community murals that unveil the emotional landscapes of social movements.
Filmography Movies
Acting
I Wanna Become the Sky
When a young artist visits the studio of a charismatic artist to get her first tattoo, she is forced to confront a shared cultural secret that awakens the burgeoning force inside of her.
They Call Me Suki
Suki Terada Ports is an unstoppable Japanese American NYC elder who has been a tireless activist for the AAPI Community for decades. She has fought for Civil Rights in the 1960s, school integration, prison reform, female healthcare equality, LGBTQ+ rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and support, before the AAPI community would even recognize it. In this film, we follow Suki as she goes from her neighborhood in Harlem where she’s lived for over 87 years to a lunch at her friend’s apartment in downtown. A conversation of action, identity, and belonging emerges between three generations of AAPI activists and storytellers.
Production
Little Sky
A non-binary Chinese-American drag queen returns to their home town to confront their estranged father about the childhood memories that continues to haunt them.
Little Sky
A non-binary Chinese-American drag queen returns to their home town to confront their estranged father about the childhood memories that continues to haunt them.
Little Sky
A non-binary Chinese-American drag queen returns to their home town to confront their estranged father about the childhood memories that continues to haunt them.
Subliminal
In a dark bedroom, when Hollis uses breath work to soothe herself, she suddenly is transported to a desert where she encounters her wounded inner child. Over the course of a sunset, they reconcile their lost relationship.
Subliminal
In a dark bedroom, when Hollis uses breath work to soothe herself, she suddenly is transported to a desert where she encounters her wounded inner child. Over the course of a sunset, they reconcile their lost relationship.
Fervor
Tomás, a gay teenager from a small beach town in Chile, lives daydreaming at the beat of pop-music. During a summer day he sees his crush again, Benjamín, and encouraged by his music he jumps forward to the adventure of burgeoning first love, facing his fears and risking leaving the safe refuge of his musical and colorful world.
Happy Thanksgiving
An Indigenous man takes a Happy Thanksgiving wish very very personally.
Afterearth
As rising sealevels threaten locations touched by the Pacific Ocean in Hawaiʻi, the Philippines, China, and North America, four women give offerings of music, poetry and heartfelt testimonial to preserve the volcano, ocean, air and land for future generations.
I Wanna Become the Sky
When a young artist visits the studio of a charismatic artist to get her first tattoo, she is forced to confront a shared cultural secret that awakens the burgeoning force inside of her.
Afterearth
As rising sealevels threaten locations touched by the Pacific Ocean in Hawaiʻi, the Philippines, China, and North America, four women give offerings of music, poetry and heartfelt testimonial to preserve the volcano, ocean, air and land for future generations.
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