Jenna A. Bush
SHORTS
HELLO TO JULIA
nonprofit disability centered film
Winner:
BEST EDITING - EQUUS International Film Festival
NEW HOPE AWARD - New Hope Film Festival
Featured:
Woodstock International Film Festival
ASHES TO ASH
Season 2 Episode 21
True Crime Webseries
Editor
Ashes to Ash is a docu-series that investigates unsolved murder cases. In this episode, the team traveled Perdido Bay between Florida and Alabama where a supposed "accidental drowning" occurred. They recreate the conditions of the boat trip in question to determine if the suspect's could possibly be true.
Sifting through two days worth of go-pro footage from multiple angles, I pieced together the many recreation attempts into a cohesive story complete with maps and graphics for optimal clarity. I used previous interview footage and audio recordings to draw comparisons between the Ashes to Ash team's results and the official story told to police. The difficult task was finding the gems in the many hours of go-pro footage and identifying parallels in the series to connect everything to the greater story. I then had to devise an organizational structure through which to depict the complicated multiple experiments that would be easy to follow and also exciting and suspenseful to watch.
Equine Facilitated Learning
nonprofit disability short
James Patrick Martin
at Special Strides
nonprofit disability short
Featured:
Garden State Film Festival
CHRISTINA SEIX ACADEMY
student profiles
Gabriel
Moziah
Christina Seix Academy is an independent school that works toward dismantling of systemic barriers caused by the intersections of race, class, immigration status, and other elements of identity. Children begin as early as five years old and continue through 8th grade. To celebrate their first ever graduating class, the organization commissioned a film highlighting each student.
I was tasked with editing each of the mini student profiles that used throughout the film. For this, I was given the student interviews and some additional b-roll footage. The challenge was getting to know each student through their interviews alone, and creating micro biographical segments that truly encapsulated who they were in that moment.
MINOR DETAILS
short documentary
Winner:
BEST HOMEGROWN DOCUMENTARY SHORT - Garden State Film Festival