Kate Jessop is a multi award winning writer/director who has had hundreds of international exhibits and has a multitude of international distribution deals including Shorts International and Amazon Prime. She represented the UK in the Best of Women in Film and TV and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Lab both with her portfolio as a director and with her comedy series chosen for development in the Project Lab. She has worked across narrative film, comedy, illustration, live visuals, music video and motion design and has undertaken artist residencies in Berlin, Istanbul, Brazil and Reykjavik. She has had retrospectives at the Gilbert Baker Film Festival USA and in Czech Republic’s Anifilm. Her work was written about in the first ever book on Queer Animation: On LGBTQ2S Animation published by Quickdraw in Canada, 2020.