Jen Gerber

Jen Gerber built her film career in Chicago before completing an MFA from Columbia University in New York. In 2018 she released her debut feature film, The Revival, which received a jury special mention at NewFest for “outstanding performances” and The Hollywood Reporter called the film “riveting”. Jen freelanced for over a decade as a 1st assistant director where she worked with James Franco on The Sound and the Fury and Birth of a Poet starring Whoopi Goldberg, Olivia Wilde and Chloe Sevigny. Jen has served as a mentor for the Sundance Film Festival Native Lab, was the Creative Director for the School of Creative and Performing Arts in LA and NY and served as the Executive Director of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival for 6 years. As the Film Program Directorfor for Low Key Arts, Jen opened a year-round filmmaking program for non-traditional students called Inception to Projection and she leads the annual film festival Persistence of Vision Film Festival. She is currently in production with her debut feature documentary Dirty Girl and has 2 scripted features in development which include Has Been Beauty Queen, a semi-autobiographical story of growing up in Arkansas and Shelter.

Her films have played all over the world from Paris, Melbourne, London, Moscow, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Austin and Little Rock. Her directing awards include Regional Finalist for Student Academy Awards, Princess Grace Award, 2 Telly awards, VGIK Best Film, Tropfest 2013 Finalist as well as receiving the “Indie Soul” award at the Boston International Film Festival. 

Jen and her writing partner Samuel Brett Williams have two screenplays in development and their script Has Been Beauty Queen won “Best Comedy Feature” at the Shore Script screenplay competition and they were finalists at the Nashville Screenplay Competition and a semifinalists with the Austin Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition. This script was also selected to participate in the Toronto International Film Festival Financing Forum. Their screenplay, Trashed, was selected as one of the top 50 best scripts of the Nichols Competition.

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