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Jessica Barr

Jessica Barr

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Biography

A multi-hyphenate filmmaker raised in Portland, Oregon; Jessica Barr's work often explores loss and coming of age. She's known for stirring and cerebral stories - grounded in naturalism. Jessica’s narrative feature The Plan, an ambitious single-take thriller, just had its world premiere at Slamdance Film Festival.

Known For

The Plan
10.0

Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single day, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a radical act they believe will change the world. As paranoia builds and fractures deepen, the lines between purpose, fear, and identity blur.

The Plan

2026
BLACKBERRY
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When a group of friends sneak out of summer camp, they return to find that everyone has vanished and only a puzzle of mystic markings and blood remain.

BLACKBERRY

2024
Good Grief
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After her mother suddenly dies, a pushover painter must battle through the opinions and expectations of family, "friends," and a toxic boyfriend to plan her funeral.

Good Grief

2024
Sophie Jones
5.0

Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.

Sophie Jones

2021
All Over Everywhere
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A quick trip to the restroom starts as an emergency session with Seniors, Elizabeth and Ava, over Zoe’s failing relationship and ends with a full on party in the newly named gender neutral bathroom. When an alert goes out that a teacher is coming, the Senior class has a mad rush to get the hell out.

All Over Everywhere

2023
Can't Seem to Make You Mine
N/A

A man who was just released from prison tries to make amends with his ex and become a father to his 6-year-old son while staying with a stripper he met on a pen-pal website.

Can't Seem to Make You Mine

2023
Whole
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A sex doll learns what it means to be a woman and how to become whole.

Whole

2025
Private Moments
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A withdrawn teen is pushed to her limits when an acting class blurs the line between performance and personal truth.

Private Moments

2025
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Waiting Game

2019
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Fml

2024
That Piece of You
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With help from her girlfriend Maddie, Trisha sneaks into her old house, when the new tenant and his date return unexpectedly.

That Piece of You

2021
Tight
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A woman grappling with difficulty finding sexual pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit.

Tight

2024
The Buyers
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A new homeowner grows suspicious of a neighborly couple eager to help her unpack.

The Buyers

2023
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Muse

2021
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Claire visits her best friend Kiah for a weekend but their friendship is quickly tested by her new college friends.

Slap Shot

2021
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Crimson and Clover

2014
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Cuspid

2023
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A young girl faces a test of friendship at an orphanage in 1970 South Korea.

Julia

2022
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September

2022
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An estranged family searches for their missing father whose cancer diagnosis two years prior drove them apart. Sisters, Carrie and June, struggle to reconnect while they unravel their father's mysterious disappearance in the forests of Mt. Hood.

The Leap

2020