Jessica is an award-winning director and producer. She directed Secret Lives of Trees, a premium history documentary series for Channel NewsAsia, nominated for the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Awards 2023, a Women in History series for the National Library Board of Singapore, and is the only Singaporean awarded the FreedomFilmFest Justin Louis award for directing The Shades of Love, a documentary on sex workers in Singapore.

Jessica also produced Netflix’s first Korean true crime series The Raincoat Killer which ranked top 5 on Netflix Korea, and was a supervising producer on Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso, the first documentary to rank number 1 on Netflix Indonesia and top 10 non-English films globally.

Jessica was previously Head of Development at Beach House Pictures, one of Asia’s largest independent production companies. She oversaw the strategy, origination, packaging and pitching of all non-scripted shows, including managing the relationships with buyers and talents from the US to Asia. Jessica was involved in selling many of BHP’s most high-profile documentary and unscripted programming such as the Emmy- nominated lifestyle series Mind Your Manners (Netflix), The Raincoat Killer (Netflix), feature length human interest doc Best Dog India (Netflix), science series Evolve (Curiosity, Amazon Prime), and natural history series Otter Dynasty (Max, Discovery+, Love Nature).

A graduate of Busan International Film Festival Platform Busan 2023 and featured in Prestige Magazine’s 40 under 40, Jessica is also an adjunct lecturer in documentary filmmaking at the National University of Singapore.