Jessica Jiji

Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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October 2022

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About Jessica

Jessica Jiji has earned the Page International Screenwriting Award Gold Prize, Winner of the Big Apple Film Festival as well as Semifinalist and Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival screenplay competitions. Her works include:

"World Class” (Screenplay)
Gold Prize Winner, Page International Screenplay Awards, 2022
Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival, 2022
Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Fall 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2021
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Winter 2021
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2022

"The Songstress of Baghdad" (Screenplay)
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2022
Second Rounder, 10th Launch Pad Feature Competition
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Fall 2022

“Transjordan” (Short)
Winner, Big Apple Film Festival Fall 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Fall 2022

"Fakes" (Teleplay)
Finalist, WeScreenplay TV Lab, 2023
Quarterfinalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2022
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Pilot Competition 2022
Semifinalist, WeScreenplay TV Contest
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Fall 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Fall 2022
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Spring 2022

"Sh*tcoin" (Screenplay)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Fall 2022

“G5 Visa” (Teleplay)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition, 2023

"Sextortion" (Screenplay)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022

"6 Words for Love" by Tak Inagaki & Jessica Jiji (Screenplay)
Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Official Selection, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Spring 2022

“Wild Mountain Lily” by Tak Inagaki & Jessica Jiji (Screenplay)
Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022

"Delicacies" by Tak Inagaki & Jessica Jiji (Teleplay)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Pilot Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022

"Media Darling” (Screenplay)
Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2022

“The Nearlywed Game” (Screenplay)
Quarterfinalist, Screenwriters Network Feature Competition, 2022

“She is One Star” (Short)
Quarterfinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition Fall 2022

“The Circle at Liberation Square” (Historical fiction manuscript)
Top 100, 6th Annual Launchpad Prose Competition, 2022

“Miss Fortune Teller” (Modern romance manuscript)
Coverfly Red List, 2022

Her books have been published in the United States by HarperCollins and some also in Italy by Newton Compton. “Diamonds Take Forever” is a classic RomCom with an Arabic twist, “How to Judge a Book by its Lover” is a mishap comedy, and “Sweet Dates in Basra” is literary fiction.

She currently works at as a video producer.

Gender:
Female

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World Class Budget: $1M - $5M | Family A 12-year old runs away from home and into the United Nations, seeking refuge on its international territory, where she stumbles on a huge scandal and then becomes a global sensation.
Sh*tcoin Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime A genius group of poor immigrants exploited by their greedy boss plots to scam her back using cryptocurrency.
6 Words for Love (Tak Inagaki & Jessica Jiji) Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy When Zeus, King of all Greek gods, stakes his entire domain on a bet that he can seduce a mortal woman, he discovers that love is more dangerous than power.
Media Darling Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance A thirsty bit-part TV actress is publicly dumped by her Hollywood heartthrob husband and gains a starring movie role on condition that she maintain a pathetic public image.
Sextortion Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror An attention-starved college coed lands in the crosshairs of a murderous incel who weaponizes technology to sextort her until she can no longer tell what’s real and what’s fake, who helps and who kills -- or how to break free.
The Songstress of Baghdad Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical A Jewish girl in 1946 Iraq runs away to Baghdad to become a nightclub singer until she's forced to choose between losing her voice or her life.
The Nearlywed Game Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance At a couple's engagement celebration, the groom's ex shows up as the waitress, reigniting sparks between them that threaten to burn the party down.
Fakes Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime A Bronx couture genius teams up with a counterfeiter to sell fakes -- but their success depends on the one person who refuses to help.
Delicacies (Tak Inagaki & Jessica Jiji) Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance When her commercial rent spikes, a hopelessly single pastry chef is forced to fuse her business with a dating service whose owner she can't stand.