Biography
Jessiline Berry is an accomplished young filmmaker, performer, and Founder of FemmeMaker Productions, an organization dedicated to the empowerment of women in film, both in front of and behind the camera. FemmeMaker is a concept-to-completion production company whose goal is to give voices to the voiceless through its work with non-profit organizations, small businesses, filmmakers, performing artists, and other media artists. Ms. Berry has worked as Producer, Writer, Director, and Editor on several projects ranging in content from experimental and narrative short films to documentary and entertainment television. As a University of Texas graduate, she received a BS in Radio, Television, and Film (1999) and a BA in Theatre and Dance (2000). In 2007 she earned her MFA from Columbia University's prestigious School of the Arts, concentrating in Directing. While at Columbia, she worked with several student groups to promote minority involvement in the film industry. In the Spring of 2003 she founded Columbia Women in Film, a completely student-run organization that works to celebrate and promote women's contribution to cinema. Ms. Berry has also worked in varying capacities in projects produced by Kanalya Pictures, Token Productions, The Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education, Alpha Video, PrimeCut Productions, Teachscape, Character Studies Productions, and Lee Daniels Entertainment. Ms. Berry has worked in Production Finance at BET Networks since 2007. She is developing the feature film "That's Good, That's Enough" and the one hour pilot, "Sunshine", supported in part by a generous grant from The National Black Programming Consortium.
