Jessica Kingdon (she/her) is a Chinese-American director and producer named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Her first documentary Ascension 登楼叹 (2021), was nominated for the 94th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category. It won three Cinema Eye Honors, Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival, and Best Editing at DOC NYC. The film was nominated for six Critics’ Choice Awards, the DGA Awards, Spirit Awards, the Gotham, and the International Documentary Association. Her award-winning short Commodity City (2017) played at over 50 film festivals. She co-directed the shorts It’s Coming! (2020), and Routine Island (2019). Her work has been supported by organizations including SFFILM, Chicken & Egg Films, Cinereach, Sundance, Field of Vision, and Firelight Media. She co-produced In the Cards (dir. Colin Kane Healey, Tribeca 2021), Born to Be (dir. Tania Cypriano, NYFF 2019), The Waterslide (dir. Nathan Trusebell, True/Flase 2018), and Old Stone (dir. Johnny Ma, Berlinale 2016). Residencies include UnionDocs and a Macdowell Fellowship. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.