About

Jessica Landry is a screenwriter, director, and Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Her original horror feature, MY ONLY SUNSHINE, was accepted into Whistler Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab in 2020 and Blood in the Snow’s Horror Development Lab in 2023. In 2021, she was accepted into the CFC/Netflix Project Development Accelerator with her original horror/comedy series, CATASTROPHE QUEENS, which is currently under option; as well as TIFF’s inaugural Series Accelerator program (September 2022) and NSI’s Series Incubator program (November 2021) with her original limited drama series, GHOSTS OF LAKELAND. She’s directed a proof-of-concept short film based on GHOSTS OF LAKELAND; a drama funded by the NSI’s Cinematoba program called TESTAMENT, which is on its festival run; is currently in post on her next original short, a dark comedy entitled I FALL TO PIECES; and recently started her own production company, Familiar Films.

Jessica has several original projects under option, including WE SHALL BE MONSTERS, a factual series about the history of women in horror that she will write and direct, and the horror feature, BODY COUNT, airing on Tubi in 2024. She’s also written several drama and thriller MOWs including LIST OF A LIFETIME, which was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award and Hollywood Critics’ Association Award for Best Made for Television Movie. Jessica has worked in the development room for the CBC show STRAYS; co-wrote and co-executive produced the feature documentary, TRUE STORY, for the History Channel; has written on a sitcom in development with Eagle Vision; 7TH GEN, a factual series with APTN, which she also directed several episodes as well as an accompanying Indigenous language webseries; wrote and researched on an upcoming reality competition series; and has written several original MOWs with Vortex Productions and Reel One Entertainment; a handful of true crime series with Farpoint Films, Black Watch Entertainment, and Cream Productions; and wrote BENNY, a WWII biopic feature with Sir Harry Films. She is currently adapting the novel APRIL RAINTREE as a limited series, recently signed a two-picture development deal with Vortex Productions, and has other projects in various stages of development.

She also released her debut collection of short stories, THE NIGHT BELONGS TO US, in 2023 (with the titular story in development as a feature, with Jessica writing); co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-, British Fantasy Award-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology THERE IS NO DEATH, THERE ARE NO DEAD; and had an original story in the anthology ALIENS VS PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY. 

Your best bet at finding her online (aside from where you are now) is on Facebook and Instagram where she often posts cat gifs and references Jurassic Park way too much. You can also check her out on IMDb or email her at jessica@familiarfilms.ca.