My name is Jess. I'm a filmmaker & director specializing in experimental short narrative films. I am also a musician, songwriter, and musical artist based in Calgary, AB, Canada.

For a world that constantly doesn’t make sense, these creative outlets such as filmmaking and music have allowed me to make sense of the world around me. To see the beauty in the mundane. To take brokenness and make it beautiful. I am captivated by the world around us, and though our world is broken, it is my hope and desire that through my art and through my work, that I would be able to bring the beauty into something that has been defiled. My way of articulating story isn’t necessarily through words but through visual and musical storytelling—a universal form of communication. To see and to feel before understanding.

These are tools that help and inform me in articulating a stunning story. Through motion, through visual intentionality and integrity, through thoughtful, yet, beautiful imagination, and wonder… These are what I hope to bring to whatever projects I may find myself on.

For so long, I’ve had a dream to reach artists and creatives of all kinds across Canada. To create spaces for artists to come and know Jesus through the arts, and to provide spiritual care for artists who may be of faith or are teetering on the edge of faith. Artists are a unique people who often are overlooked, dismissed, or ignored because of their gifts and artistic ability — often described as ‘other.’ Because artists do sit on the margins and do not typically fit in any boxes, my heart is to reach artists as a friend, pastor, mentor, coach, or companion to help artists flourish where they are at.

Being an artist myself, I’ve found that though the Church has historically championed and endorsed the arts, there still is a significant gap in caring for artists and the arts as a whole. The arts are sacred; the act of making is sacred, and humans were called by God to partner with Him to restore and redeem a broken world, whatever and however that may look like. Because artists don’t typically fit in any kind of boxes and often feel misunderstood, my heart is to help cultivate human flourishing by mending brokenness through the arts by providing proper love and care for artists’ souls, while creating safe spaces for artists to discover their gifts and God-given purpose.