What We Do
I am a documentary film producer and a sometimes director and impact producer working in the Bay Area.
About
Jessica Anthony produced the 2015 award-winning film THE MASK YOU LIVE IN (Sundance/Netflix) directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In 2016, Anthony partnered with filmmaker Kelly Duane de la Vega to produce and co-direct the short film SUPREME COURT VS. THE AMERICAN VOTER (NyTimes Op Doc). Also in 2016, she produced director Guetty Felin’s narrative feature AYITI MON AMOUR, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016 and was shortlisted for an Oscar. Anthony produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary feature IN THE BONES (Atlanta Film Festival 2022/Grasshopper Films), directed and co-produced by Duane de la Vega. Her most recent project, IN WAVES AND WAR, a feature film directed by Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and has shown at film festivals across the country. Additionally, she was a producer on the documentary memoir VIVIEN’S WILD RIDE, an ITVS-supported film by Vivien Hillgrove that premiered at SFFILM in 2025. She is currently in production on POWER & LIGHT, a feature documentary that follows a team of journalists as they embark on an investigative thriller, produced by Actual Films and directed by Duane de la Vega. Jessica has a background in commercial work, animated content, and VFX, is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, a member of the Producers’ Guild of America, and a member of the DPA.
Featured Work
In The Bones
A searing look at the culture that overturned Roe v. Wade, IN THE BONES is a cinematic journey through Mississippi that provides a poetic — and sometimes painful — portrait of American culture through the ordinary lives of women and children.
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