Jessica Petelle (she/her) is a Director and a Producer of film, television and digital content.

 

Her directorial debut film, ALL GOOD, world premiered at Palm Springs International Short Fest. Her second short drama, ELLIE & SAM, premiered at the Vancouver Women in Film Festival the following year. AGE OF DYSPHORIA, a psychological drama starring Laura Vandervoort and Gordon Pinsent can be seen in Canada on CBC Gem. The film allowed Jessica to utilize her unique skill set of working in action-drama television to the short film medium. She is an alumna of the Women In the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module in Toronto, Alliance of Women Directors, Directing the Actors Lab and is a fellow in the HBOACCESS Directing Fellowship.

 

Jessica was an Executive Producer and 2^nd Unit Director on the action thriller TRIGGER POINT (Barry Pepper, Colm Feore) now playing HULU in US. She has served as a consultant on WAYWARD PINES, and SYFY/SPACE Channel series BITTNE, as a Co-Producer for THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES, and as a Co-EP for the Netflix Original Series, V-WARS. Currently she is the 2nd Unit Director on the FOX series ALERT, starring Scott Caan.

 

As a digital content producer, she worked with Merman to produce the award-winning interactive digital film OUTAGE for IBM. Other clients include Volkswagen, Comedy Central, Fox, SyFy, BlackBoxTV, among others.

 

A graduate of Indiana University, she maintains close ties to The Media School having served on the Dean's Advisory Board. She is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Alliance of Women Directors, and Women in Film and Television (LA and Toronto).

 

Her most recent short film TO HOLD THE NIGHT will be coming out this fall and is being developed as a feature film.