Dani de Jesus

DANI DE JESUS, CNN Original Series + Film Independent Docuseries Fellow, is an award-winning educator/filmmaker from LA. As the director of development at Craig Anderson Productions, she brought movies (On Golden Pond, Meltdown, For the Love of a Child) and series to the small screen. She then became a high school teacher in Maui, was a National Education Association/Teach Plus Fellow, and was named the 2011 Hawai’i Economics Teacher of the Year. Dani returned back to LA and film/tv, and focuses on telling stories that elevate and engage, highlighting underrepresented communities. She’s currently in pre-production on The Cassandra Project, a trilogy of short films about the consequences of women not being heard. She is a co-producer on the upcoming feature East of Western, featuring Dante Basco. Dani has produced short films A Cohort of Guests starring Sarah Drew, Adult Night with Kevin Alejandro/Lesley Ann-Brandt, award-winning A Woman Reported with Moira Kelly, and various music videos, including the recent AAPI anthem Gold by Ella Jay Basco, featuring Ruby Ibarra and the women’s empowerment video Crack by India de Beaufort.

Currently, Dani is a producing partner of Alejandro Films, serves as Chair of the Historic Filipinotown Coalition, and recently was named the 2022 UCLA Graduate Mentor of the Year.
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