Films
Jessica Tremblay is a bilingual Canadian screenwriter based in Vancouver. She is also a haiku poet and a cartoonist who favours a minimalist approach to scriptwriting. She often compares her style to a snow-covered field with a few branches jutting out, evoking both simplicity and depth.
She worked in the television industry for eight years, first at GlobalTV, then at a documentary production company in Montreal.
As a winner of From Our Dark Side script competition, she was mentored by Vancouver Women in Film and Television to develop her first feature, Storage. The project was pitched at the Fantasia International Film Festival's Frontières co-production market in 2018, thanks to a Passport to Markets grant from Creative BC.
Originally from Quebec, she now lives in British Columbia where she devotes her time to writing horror feature films, TV series and web series.
TV Projects
Redwood
Horror/Fantasy, TV pilot, 2024
Logline: Three generations of women struggle to keep their family together in the midst of attacks by werewolves.
Writer: Jessica Tremblay
In development.
Film Projects
Carnitas
Horror, feature film, 2024
Logline: An axe-throwing nurse protects the residents of a nursing home against a werewolf.
Writer: Jessica Tremblay
In development.
Cocoon
Horror, short film, 2024
Logline: After finding his wife in a cocoon, a man daydreams about her transformation until the cocoon opens and the terrifying truth is revealed.
Writer: Jessica Tremblay
In development.
Storage
Horror, feature film, 2018
Logline: Trapped in the basement of a building, a pregnant woman battles a bloodthirsty creature using objects found in storage lockers.
Writer: Jessica Tremblay
In development
Award: From Our Dark Side, Winner, 2018
Market: Frontières co-production market, 2018
Grant: Passport to Markets, Creative BC, 2018
CV - Screenwriting
Film Awards / Grants
- From Our Dark Side, Women in Film and Telvision Vancouver, 2018.
- Passport to Markets, Creative BC, 2018
Conferences
- London Screenwriters' Festival, 2024, 2021
- Scottish Screenwriters' Festival, 2024
- Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference, 2020-2021
- South by Southwest Festival, 2021
- Screencraft, 2021
Professional Development
Film
- Advanced Screenplay Writing, Vancouver Community College, 2024
- Creating Terrifying Horror Scripts, ScreenwritingU, 2024
- Professional Rewrite, ScreenwritingU, 2024
- James Cameron, Filmmaking, Masterclass, 2023
- Aaron Sorkin, Screenwriting, Masterclass, 2022
- Judd Appatow, Comedy, Masterclass, 2022
- Steve Martin, Comedy, Masterclass, 2022
- Screenplay Writing, Vancouver Community College, 2020
- Writing for the Screen, University of British Columbia, 2008
TV
- Shonda Rhimes, Writing for Television, Masterclass, 2023
- The Duffer Brothers, Developing an Original TV Series, Masterclass, 2023
Drama
- David Mamet, Dramatic Writing, Masterclass
Memberships
GEMS (Gender Equity in Media) - formerly called Vancouver Women in Film and Television (VWIFTV)
In the News
Lighting up Vancouver with the Firecracker Department: The community brings together diverse voices in TV and film, by Maria Fernanda Osorio Arredondo, The Peak, November 19, 2024.
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