JESS ADDUCCI
producer / writer
It all started with Metropolis. I couldn’t believe what Fritz Lang had accomplished with just visuals and music! That moment ignited my passion for visual storytelling…
By sixteen, I was serving in physical production, working my way up from production assistant to assistant director on multi-million dollar sets and award-winning short films. With six micro-budget shorts, I developed the skills to get productions off the ground, see them through production, and secure festival placement and awards. As an intern for two production companies, I leveraged my physical production know-how to gain experience in and transition to writing and producing in live-action and animation pipelines. Today, I develop, package, and produce stories in multiple mediums with a production background and narrative experience that allows me a realistic understanding of what it takes to get things done!
For me, it all comes back to visual storytelling… I thrive on refining the narrative, workshopping creative expression with directors and artists, and delivering strong, classic material that leaves audiences spellbound… just as Metropolis left me.
Narrative Features/Shorts
* Rosenwood – 2nd Rounder Austin Screenplay Competition, Semi-Finalist StoryPros Competition
* John Gray – Quarterfinalist BlueCat Screenplay Competition
TV Series/Pilots
* Emmy award winning– The Outsider’s Club, Season One
Narrative Design, Gaming
Fun Facts
Ultimate Goal: Become the John Hughes of sci-fi/fantasy across film, TV, web, audio, gaming… all the mediums!
Who would you love to work with? Shawn Levy and Andrea Romano
What’s your most prized possession in your office? Toss up between a Dragon Award from elementary school for Storytelling, and my Batman mask autographed by Kevin Conroy.
Favorite Movies: Jaws, Alien, Jurassic Park, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Addams Family, After the Thin Man, Whiplash
Favorite Directors: (in no particular order) Greta Gerwig, Denis Villeneuve, early Ridley Scott, James Cameron, early Steven Spielberg, select Luc Besson, Coen Brothers, Edgar Wright, Chris Nolan, Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite Authors: Edgar Rice Burroughs (content), Stephen King (form), Ray Bradbury, Jim Butcher
Other Favorites: Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Star Trek: TNG, Chew (comic book series), Peter David’s Young Justice, Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing, Bioshock, Team Fortress 2, The Room mobile game series, Portal 1 & 2, Joss Whedon TV series, and early 2000’s SyFy television