Connor Jessup

Did you know?!

1. Behind the camera

   Jessup wrote and directed the short film Boy, funded by bravoFACT, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

2. Behind the camera

   Amy George, an independent film, had Jessup as its executive producer and screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

3. Behind the camera

   Jessup wrote and directed the short film Lira's Forest, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and he wanted to expand the story into a feature called Simon's Forest.

4. Behind the camera

   In 2019, Jessup produced 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing, an omnibus film featuring shorts from directors such as Ira Sachs, Catherine Breillat, Cindy Sherman and Lulu Wang. His own film Night Flight was part of the program.

5. Behind the camera

   In 2017, word came that Jessup would take the director's chair for a documentary profile of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a Thai filmmaker. FilmStruck and The Criterion Collection put out the film in the second quarter of 2018.

6. A first

   In 2016, Filmmaker Magazine put Jessup on its yearly list of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, an honor the publication gives each year.