JESSROOKE
Jess Rooke
Production Assistant and Student Film Producer passionate about women-centric, dynamic storytelling.
my films
2026 | Producer
Crocodile Tears
Lola works as a professional mourner - a job as absurd as it sounds - and this funeral might be her strangest yet. Hired to pose as the grieving girlfriend of Theodore Walton, a young man recently deceased, she soon finds the lines between performance and reality beginning to blur.
2026 | Production Coordinator
March on Madison Street
It's 2 o'clock on Madison Street and pen pals Helen and James are due to meet. Problem is they don't know what the other looks like.
2025 | Runner
Weeyagale
A magical realist short film about a young British-Ugandan girl who reconnects with her heritage through dance, memory, and the ancestral power of story.
2025 | Production Coordinator
The Three Graces
Three Greek female artists shake up 1860s London, as they pursue their artistic careers alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
2025 | 1st Assistant Director
Miss Teen Skegness
1980s drama following pageant queen, Vienna Von Valentine, as she battles against her overbearing mother.
2025 | Co-producer
Pied Piper
1939. At the outbreak of WW2, a young boy must decide between fleeing London and saying goodbye to his loving mother.
2025 | Art Coordinator
Limbo
After suffering an injury to the head, Jayden - a young, aspiring doctor - spends an uncomfortable eternity in the limbo of a crumbling A&E.
2024 | Producer & 1st Assistant Director
Sheep Head
A young actor finds themselves lost in a surreal, animal-themed theatre troupe.
my films
my films
MISS TEEN SKEGNESS- 1st AD. may 2025.
PIED PIPER- co-producer. may 2025.
BOY- producer. may 2024.
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festival experience
BFI Future Film Festival
Festival Volunteer | Feb 2025
Electric Film Festival
Festival Volunteer | 2025
Margate Film Festival
Young Programming Assistant | 2025
screenplays
Beyond film production, I am enthusiastic about developing my current screenwriting style, to build up the various short screenplays I have written and capture universal human emotion.
EIGHTEEN
End of Act 1.
AS coursework. January 2021.
In a world where your 18th birthday is your last, there's a price to pay for adulthood.
ENOUGH FOR YOU
September 2021
Reeling from a heartbreaking loss, Cece reminisces on the memories that defined her love.
IN COLOUR
November 2022
Torn between passion and insecurity, a young dancer's life is transformed as colour re-enters her world.
EPHEMERAL
February 2024.
When depressed student Meg stumbles across unorthodox 'happy pills', her addiction to the superficial joy they bring transforms her life terrifyingly.
further creative endeavours
Alongside creating detailed storyboards for my projects, I take an interest in analytically delving into films through blogs and audio-visual essays. This not only widens my knowledge of film vocabulary, but consistently provides me with inspiration for how cinematic techniques can be incorporated into my own work.
digital storyboards.
Digital storyboard for the end of Act 1 of EIGHTEEN. January 2021.
Celtx digital storyboard for the end of Act 1 of EIGHTEEN. January 2021.
Link to my film review blog: jessonfilm.
essays.
Extended Essay: To what extent are the films of Céline Sciamma a manifestation of the female gaze? October 2022.
Comparative Analysis of Jackie (2016) and Marie Antoinette (2006). March 2024.
Textual Analysis on Children of Men (2006). June 2022.
audio-visual analysis.
Comparative study of Singin' in the Rain (1952) & La La Land (2016). March 2022.
La Haine (1995)- analytical video essay. October 2021.
personal profile
Filmmaking, for me, is the most cathartic form of creative expression, allowing for societal norms to be transcended and empathy to be cultivated for others. Through producing an array of short films at Arts University Bournemouth, I have been inspired by a multitude of pioneering women filmmakers to explore underrepresented female-centric stories, not only to promote improved representation of women in the film industry, but to champion dynamic and complex female narratives. Organised, endlessly hard-working and meticulous, I am working as a producer, production coordinator and production assistant across short and feature films to drive these diverse stories into production and completion.
get to know me
behind the scenes
crocodile tears
cybernetic infatuation
boy
sheep head