Jessica Dymond
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| Name | Jessica Dymond |
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| About Me | Jessica has been working as a film and television editor for over a decade, on projects ranging from documentary to narrative to experimental. Jessica’s recent credits include the feature documentary In The Room, directed by Brishkay Ahmed, which had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) 2025, and won the VIFF audience award in the Showcase category. Prior to that, Jessica edited the feature documentary WaaPaKe, directed by Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin, and received a Leo nomination in the “Best Picture Editing – Feature Length Documentary” category; WaaPaKe also won the award for Best BC Film at VIFF in 2023, where it premiered. Jessica also edited Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon)’s cinematic VR piece, This Is Not A Ceremony, (produced by the NFB) which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and which won a Canadian Screen Award in the “Best Immersive Experience – Nonfiction” category. Other recent editing work includes the documentary The Salmon’s Call, directed by Joy Haskell, and the narrative short The Scribe of Samhain, directed by Angie Nolan. Jessica was also one of the editors for Baljit Sangra’s feature documentary Because We Are Girls, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2019 and was selected as the opening film for the 2019 DOXA film festival. Jessica holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Communications from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University. After graduate school, she completed a video editing practicum at The Banff Centre. |
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