Jesse Epstein
Affiliated Faculty, School of Film, Television, and Media Arts
Jesse Ericka Epstein is a Sundance Award-Winning documentary filmmaker, and was named one of “25 filmmakers to watch” by Filmmaker Magazine.
Her films have screened in over 40 film festivals worldwide, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MaSS MoCA, The Peabody Museum, and Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Epstein’s film 34x25x36 received a national PBS Broadcast on POV. In addition, she has a published video op-doc “Sex, Lies and Photoshop,” in The New York Times. Her project BODY TYPED: Perfection in 3 Parts has been distributed to over 150 colleges and universities through the filmmaker owned and operated coop New Day Films.
Epstein has received grants from Chicken & Egg Pictures, The Fledgling Fund, and Catapult Film Fund. She’s also received a National Endowment for the Arts residency at The MacDowell Arts Colony, a Working Films Residency at MaSS MoCA, a Family Friendly Residency at Marble House Project and Rockland Woods.
She has taught documentary filmmaking at Middle Tennessee State University, The Girls Leadership Institute (Smith College, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke), Reel Stories at The Sundance Institute, and currently teaches in the School of Film, Television, and Media Arts at Emerson College. Epstein is also a film mentor with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s production company, Patakha Pictures, based in Karachi.
Courses
- Adv Documentary Workshop
- Advanced Documentary Production
- Topics in Vis & Med: Practice
- Social Impact Studios
- Creative Civic Engagement
- Introduction to Documentary Production
- Topics in Media Production
- Approaches in Media Studies