Jess X. Snow

Biography

Jess X. Snow is a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist and author envisioning futures where the most marginalized of land and life is sacred. They bring their background in murals, visual art and poetry into their sensorial films which bring the inner healing journeys of queer Asian migrants to the big screen.

Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, they have written and directed four short films currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and the National Film Board of Canada. They previously screened at university classrooms and film festivals worldwide: including BFI London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BlackStar, Ann Arbo...