Jessica has been working in the factual television space for over ten-years.  She currently has two NZOA-funded projects with her company FOURPLAIT that are in production.

Her most recent directing projects for other production companies include an eight-part documentary series, 'Moko' about the revitalisation of traditional Māori tattooing, produced by Velvet Stone Media. And an episode of the Sky TV Series ‘Shepherdess’ based in Pōrangahau, produced by Overactive Imagination.

For many years Jessica worked as a field-director for Lisa Taouma's Tikilounge Productions. On productions like 'Fresh' and creating content for The Coconet.  Those projects took her across Aotearoa and abroad to Rarotonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawai'i, and Guåhan.