Profile:



Jess Fulton is a documentary filmmaker whose work is concerned with the personal activism of everyday life. Her most recent film, Café 1996, was shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It is one of a series of films that document the experiences of Oakland residents and their complex relationship with the impact of gentrification. In her first film, T.E.M.P.S., a community of punks in their early twenties examines work as a means to a different end. It was included in the San Francisco Cinematheque's "Bay Area Women at Work" screening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (1996). In 2002, as part of the PBS "Voices from Indian Country" series, she wrote, produced, and edited The Giant Blues, a documentary depicting the story of a 1980s Oakland youth Native American baseball team. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Jess received a Masters in Film from the British Film Institute in 1999. She grew up in San Francisco and Oakland.