



Producer. Production Consultant. PM. Environmentalist.
Jessica Jennings has had a successful 20+ year career working as a Producer, Line Producer, Production Manager and Consultant in the scripted, documentary, commercial, and production sustainability space. She has worked on numerous series and films for production companies: Whizbang Films, Sinking Ship Entertainment, NFB and Proper Television, and her work has aired on Netflix, CBC, Crave, TVO, Amazon, PBS, CBS Paramount, HBO Canada, National Geographic, Hallmark Channel, CTV, etc.
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As of January 2025, Jessica holds the position of Production Consultant - Environmental Services at the Ontario Film Commission / Ontario Creates overseeing the Ontario Green Screen program.
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Production Highlights include winning the EMA Gold Seal Sustainability Award and the MIPCOM Diversity Award in 2024 for the TVO/PBS kids literacy series "Wordsville" for Sinking Ship Entertainment, where she was the Line Producer. Jessica is also proud to have Line Produced the Hot Docs short documentary series “Citizen Minutes”, as well as a scripted comedy short-form series “Nesting” for Crave in 2023.
From 2020-2022, Jessica held the position as Senior Production Coordinator at the National Film Board of Canada where she worked on “To Kill a Tiger”, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 2024 Oscars. It won Best Canadian Feature Documentary at TIFF and at the Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) in 2023.
Jessica was the Producer on the CSA-winning CBC Gem comedy web-series “Hey Lady”, starring Jayne Eastwood and Don McKellar and directed by Sarah Polley, which premiered at Sundance Festival in 2020. For Proper Television, she Line Produced the Netflix Series “Moteliers” and worked on two seasons of "Masterchef Canada" and "Iron Chef Canada". For Sinking Ship Entertainment, she also Line Produced “Lockdown”, the 1st season of the TVO/PBS Emmy-winning series “Odd Squad” and the CBC/Amazon Prime Puppet show “Bookaboo”.
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Sustainable Production highlights include working as the Production Manager for the Sustainable Production Forum events held in 2022, 2023 & 2024 in Toronto, and working as a Sustainability Consultant for Green Spark Group in 2023 supporting on training and sustainability initiatives for the Walt Disney Company & NHK, Japan's National Broadcaster.
With a passion to tell stories that spark change and raise awareness, she's worked on Rob Stewart's environmental films “Revolution” and “Sharkwater: Extinction”, as well as in development of the CSA-Winning and Emmy-Nominated CBC documentary "Toxic Beauty". As the Associate Producer on the CSA-nominated CBC documentary channel feature “Meat the Future” directed by Liz Marshall, she attended the Climate Story Lab in New York and the Redford Center Story Lab in Utah. In addition, Jessica worked for Hemmings House Pictures in New Brunswick, a Certified B Corp Production company with a triple bottom line and carbon off-set program, where she Produced and Directed a Kids mental-wellness series called “It’s OK to be Awesome" funded by Telus.
Jessica has been implementing sustainability practices on her film sets for the past 10 years with a golal to decarbonize the film and television industry, and tell important environmental stories.





