Jessica Mackie Hunter is a Czech/British writer and director based in Toronto. Her first two short films, Rabbit and Juices, are currently on the festival circuit, with her work screening at BIFA and BAFTA-qualifying festivals. She is in post-production on her next three shorts, Pineapples, Apples and Undressing Them. Altogether, she has produced six films, including a documentary and a children’s animation project.
In 2023, her short film script Fires Elsewhere was selected for the Messy Collective’s Overexposed: Live Read event and the International ELBE DOCK Film Festival’s Film Inn Story Editing Workshop. She is an alumna of the Torino Film Lab Extended – Film 2024 and the Boosting Impact Emerging Writers Programme. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Česká Leonarda Fund and was a finalist at the Toronto Film Plug Fund.
Focusing on historically marginalised groups, Jessica’s films explore community, identity, escapism, and disobedience through the lens of LGBTQIA+ folk, neurodivergence, and immigrant experience.