"Jen is one that I am especially proud to champion as a director and visual artist. She approaches storytelling with great artistry, drawing from the principles of both painting and literature. Her characters and settings are deeply moving and compelling and her story world is intoxicating and vivid.”
— Deborah Riley Draper (on ELECTRIC BLEAU); Writer, Director & Producer
Jen West is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her narrative shorts (Crush, Bubble, Little Cabbage) and vibrant music videos, including the million-view hit Call Me by St. Paul & The Broken Bones. A Birmingham, Alabama native, Jen’s work is rooted in the South and often blends magical realism and genre-bending storytelling to challenge conventional narratives. Her films have screened at numerous festivals and programs, and she serves on the board of Cucalorus Film Festival, where she was also an artist-in-residence. Now based in Los Angeles, she is developing original features that explore identity, place, and reinvention, while producing bold new work across genres and regions. Her latest project as a producer is A Fresh Hell, a genre-bending feature from cowriter-director Brandon Harris that reflects her commitment to championing daring independent voices.
“Jen West is amazing and magical. She has big ideas that need big support and no one, particularly in the South, is telling the magnificent fantastical stories like she is. Little girls and the little girls in all of us need to play and she builds those playgrounds. I believe Jen will make the next Beasts of the Southern Wild and anyone would be LUCKY to work with her on the front end of her career.”
— Virginia Newcomb, Actress