Congratulations summer lab 2015 participant, Jessica Kingdon, who was featured in 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017.

Jessica Kingdon is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. She received her BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and her MA in Media Studies from The New School. Her short documentary COMMODITY CITY shot in Yiwu, China was selected for the Points North Shortform Editing Residency. She is working on a counterpart documentary about the effects of Chinese tourists vacationing on an island in Micronesia. She also works as an independent producer, most recently co-producing the feature film OLD STONE which premiered at the Berlinale 2016 and won the Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF 2016. She is also a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

We are proud of Jessica Kingdon who also premiered Commodity City at Slamdance last year.