Films
Jessica Tremblay is a bilingual Canadian screenwriter living in Vancouver.
A published haiku poet, recipient of both Canada Council for the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council grants, she brings a minimalist approach to scriptwriting. She worked in the television industry for 8 years before turning to writing feature films.
As a winner of From Our Dark Side genre competition, she received a Passport to Markets grant from Creative BC to pitch her horror film project Storage at Frontieres International Co-Production Market during Fantasia film festival in Montreal.
Her goal is to create edge-of-your seat horror movies featuring women protagonists. She writes in English and French.
Film Projects
CV - Films
Courses
- ScreenwritingU - Creating Terrifying Horror Scripts, 2024
- ScreenwritingU - Professional Rewrite, 2024
- Masterclass - James Cameron, Filmmaking, 2023
- Masterclass - Shonda Rhimes, Writing for Television, 2023
- Masterclass - The Duffer Brothers, Developing an Original TV Series, 2023
- Masterclass - David Mamet, Dramatic Writing, 2023
- Masterclass - Aaron Sorkin, Screenwriting, 2022
- Masterclass - Judd Appatow, Comedy, 2022
- Masterclass - Steve Martin, Comedy, 2022
- Vancouver Community College, Screenplay Writing, 2020
- University of British Columbia,Writing for the Screen, 2008
Conferences
- London Screenwriters' Festival, 2024, 2021
- Scottish Screenwriters' Festival, 2024
- Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference, 2020-2021
- Screencraft, 2021
- South by Southwest Festiva, 2021
Awards / Grants
- From Our Dark Side, Women in Film and Telvision Vancouver, 2018.
- Passport to Markets, Creative BC, 2018
Memberships
GEMS (Gender Equity in Media) - formerly Vancouver Women in Film and Television (VWIFTV)
Education
- Simon Fraser University - Editing Certificate, 2014
- Simon Fraser University - Professional Communication and Business Writing Certificate, 2014
- Vancouver Community College - Business and Technical Writing Certificate, 2014