About Jessica Chermayeff

Jessica is a director and producer of television series and documentary films and a founding partner of the production company Cousins. Most recently she and Ana Veselic co-directed, Hulu’s six part docu series, Planet Sex  hosted by Cara Delevinge as she travels the world to explore sexuality, human connection, and gender expression. Jessica and Ana also created, produced and directed The Come Up, on Hulu following 6 young New Yorkers as they live, love, and succeed in the city. She is also the executive producer of Lifetime’s Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, an award winning digital road trip to hear from women the year after Trump’s election. She produced the award winning short, Senior Prom, for ITVS and directed the documentary film Towards the North, following Honduran refugees to the U.S. Border, as part of Humanity on the Move a campaign she produced about the global refugee crisis which received an IDA nomination and aired on PBS. She also produced the SXSW-winning, Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace. Her other producing and directing work includes nonfiction television for CNN, New York Times and PBS covering topics including the Mongol Nation bikers, Child literacy in Vietnam and sex trafficking in America. She was the field producer for the PBS mini-series Half the Sky: Turning Opportunity into Oppression for Women Worldwide, which followed the reporting of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. She is a board member of the New York Studio School and a resident of Brooklyn.

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