Jessica Bardsley’s films have screened across the U.S. and internationally at top documentary and experimental film festivals like CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, EMAF, Flaherty NYC, RIDM, True/False, and many more. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Princess Grace Award in Film, Grand Prize at 25FPS, the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Best Short Film at Punto de Vista.
Her films have received support from If/Then Shorts, the LEF Foundation, the Points North Institute, the Harvard Film Study Center, and the Mellon Foundation. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She has a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.