Jessica Joy Wise

Jessica Joy Wise attended the University of Toronto from 1990 to 1993, where she studied in the Religious and East Asian Studies departments. By 1994 she discovered her talent in drawing and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, where her focus turned towards film studies. In 1996 she was granted a scholarship and she did a year of exchange at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She finished with a B.F.A in Intermedia and moved back to Toronto in 1998. Recently she attended summer courses at UCLA and the L.A Film School in the Entertainment Studies Department. Her first short documentary entitled “Thirst” received great reviews in Toronto’s media and screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival and The Taiwan International Documentary Film festival, among others. Jessica now is finding her path as a filmmaker in documentary and dance cinema.