Jess Manafort - Biography

Jessica Manafort was born on June 13, 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia where she grew up in the historic Mount Vernon district. She attended St. Mary's Elementary School where she met and forged a lifelong friendship with fellow Liminality filmmaker, Caitlin Murphy. It was while attending, Mount Vernon High School that Jessica met the members of the band Over It who also appear in Liminality. In 2000, Jessica was accepted to the famed Tisch Film School of New York University after receiving a recommendation from the legendary director Martin Scorsese. She continued to excel at the craft of filmmaking at NYU and graduated in the Fall of 2004 with honors. In 2005, she received the Richard Vague Grant for her next project, a feature film entitled The Beautiful Ordinary. Jessica currently resides in New York City where she continues to write new screenplays and is nearing the end of pre-production for The Beautiful Ordinary.